Senior Software Engineer - AA

Company Description

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.
Allergan Aesthetics | An AbbVie Company

Job Description

Are you a passionate Senior Software Engineer ready to take on the exciting challenge of building critical core foundational platforms that empower our internal application teams? If this thrilling opportunity calls to you, read on!

As the Senior Software Engineer, you will report to the Software Engineering Manager and continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve the most critical technical problems.

You Will

• Own and deliver projects that may span multiple sprints

• Independently identify the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems

• May own several small components/services

• Collaborative Reach - Work primarily with direct team and cross-functional partners while driving cross-team collaboration for my project

• Project Leadership - Define and deliver well-scoped milestones for a project.

• Product Expertise - Leverage input from product stakeholders as available to determine the right technical solutions

• Mentorship - Actively level up less-experienced members of team utilizing code reviews, proven design patterns and your experience building large scale public facing software

• Champion code quality, reusability, scalability security and strategic software architecture decisions

• Care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully and the entire team is given the opportunity to take part in evaluating potential hires

• Relate to our core values (see below) and would like to contribute to a positive working environment and culture

Code fluency

• Write code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements.

• Ensure high code quality in code reviews.

• Strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting the primary programming language and development environment and a strong grasp of the idioms and patterns of language. May be intimately familiar with the open source community surrounding it.

Software design

• Able to independently design software components in well scoped scenarios, with simplicity and maintenance as key considerations. Components are testable, debuggable and have logical APIs that are not easily misused.

• Demonstrates good judgment as to when to make significant refactors and when it’s better to leave things as-is.

• Strong grasp of dependent libraries, platforms, and systems, ability to expertly leverage them

• Understanding of more advanced software patterns and the ability to apply them appropriately during implementation.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• At least 6+ years as a Full Stack Software Engineer and bonus to have experience leading other developers.

• Strong experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, and GraphQL

• Experience with Microservices and Event Driven Architecture using AWS, Serverless, Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Strong familiarity with data structures, algorithms and design patterns

• Proficient with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and understand when to use relational and non-relational databases.

• Proponent of code testing and familiar with the common frameworks for unit, integration and functional tests

• Experience working with DevOps Engineers using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD Pipelines.

• Adept at drafting, validating and implementing software systems architecture using modern development and deployment technologies and can speak thoroughly to their tradeoffs.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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