Manager, Software Engineer

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, Xand You Tube.

The Manager, Software Engineer will work collaboratively with technology and business groups to conceive, design, engineer, and implement full stack software solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems, while leading and developing a small team of engineers. This role will deliver production-grade web applications and services across a modern React/Type Script front-end, Python and Node back-end services, andGraphQLAPIs. The incumbent will balance hands-on technical contribution with day-to-day team leadership - guiding project execution, developing team members, and driving engineering practices that improve productivity and quality across the group.

Responsibilities

Technical

• Conceive, design, engineer, and implement full stack software solutions—spanning React/TypeScriptfront-ends, Python and Node.js services, andGraphQLAPIs—by studying information needs, conferring with users, and analyzing systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
• Design and build responsive, accessible web experiences in React and Type Script, using modern tooling (Vite,GraphQLcodegen,Tan Stack/Redux Toolkit, react-hook-form,zod) and shared design systems.
• Design and implement
  
  GraphQLAPIs; author schemas and resolvers that scale across multiple services and clients.
• Build and operate
  
  Python and Node.js back-end services, including agent/LLM-integrated services, exposing them safely and observably to front-end and downstream consumers.
• Design and build custom integrations between systems, both third-party and internal, ensuring reliable and secure data exchange.
• Package and deploy applications using containerization (Docker); have working familiarity with Kubernetes-based orchestration for services owned by the team.
• Maintain CI/CD pipeline ownership for the team's services, covering automated build, test, and deployment across environments.
• Partner with stakeholders to help define and implement technical guardrails for citizen-developed applications, applying software engineering and infrastructure principles to promote secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• Instrument services and clients forobservability anduse those signals to analyze and resolve technical problems using disciplined problem-solving methods.

People & Team Leadership

• Manage a small team of 2–3 direct FTE reports, and direct the work ofadditionalcontract engineers, providing day-to-day direction on tasks, sprint planning, and prioritization.
• Conduct performance reviews and support each FTE team member's career development, including goal-setting and skill growth planning; provide performance feedback on contractors' work.
• Mentor and coach team members on technical practices, code quality, and problem-solving approaches.
• Serve astechnicallead for team projects, guiding design decisions and ensuring solutions meet both business needs and engineering standards.
• Routinelydemonstrateinitiative and creativity in developing technology solutions, both personally and by fostering them within the team.
• Operate with high autonomy,requiring only minimal direction from supervisor. Accountable for team delivery and output, and for the performance and development of direct reports.
• Mayinitiatenew areas of investigation that are meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a scientific or business activity.

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years' experience;
  
  Master's Degree with 5 years' experience;
  PhD with 0 years' experience.
• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of full stack software engineering.
• Proven, hands-on experience delivering production applications with Python and React + Type Script.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and consuming
  
  GraphQLAPIs.
• Experience building custom integrations between systems, including third-party and internal platforms.
• Practical experience with containerization (Docker).
• Strong TypeScriptproficiency, including type-driven API design and shared…