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Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Abbott · Madison, WI · $129,300–$258,700 a year · Full time

Posted Aug 31, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

This is a people-leadership role first. Tell me how you grow engineers on your team.

What they are checking: Whether they put real effort into coaching, feedback and career growth.

Tell me about a time you handled a struggling engineer on your team.

What they are checking: Whether they address performance issues fairly, directly and with support.

How do you stay technical enough to make good decisions while leading people?

What they are checking: Whether they keep enough technical depth to guide the team credibly.

How do you work with product managers to shape what your team builds?

What they are checking: Whether they can partner on product decisions, not just take orders.

What does a healthy engineering culture look like to you?

What they are checking: Whether their idea of culture matches the team-first leadership the role describes.

What would you do

How do you balance new features with paying down technical debt?

What they are checking: Whether they can make the case for long-term health without stalling the product.

A patient-facing release introduces a bug that confuses users about their results. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they act fast to protect patients and lead a blameless review afterward.

About the work

PatientHub and Consumer Initiated Orders are high-traffic, internet-facing portals. How would you make sure they stay reliable?

What they are checking: Whether they understand reliability practices like monitoring, load testing and incident response.

These portals handle patient data. How does that affect your team's priorities?

What they are checking: Whether they make security and privacy part of the team's daily practices.

How do you hire engineers for a team like this?

What they are checking: Whether they have a thoughtful hiring process focused on skill and team fit.

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The full job description

As published by Abbott.

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Position Overview At Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, we're cancer fighters. That's not a tagline, it's the reason we come to work every day. Our mission is to change lives through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, and ultimately to help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes. Everything we build, including the software you'd be leading, exists to move that mission forward. We're looking for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the team behind PatientHub and Consumer Initiated Orders, two of the products patients rely on most when they interact with us directly. These are internet-facing, high-traffic, content-rich portals, and we're looking for a leader who's as invested in growing this team as they are in growing the product. This is a people-leadership role first and foremost. You'll report directly to the Senior Director of Software Engineering, and you'll have real room to shape how this team works, grows, and takes on hard problems together. Staying technical matters here too. While this is a leadership role, we want someone with strong architectural instincts who stays close enough to the code to jump into design discussions and code reviews with the team, not just to observe, but to genuinely contribute. We'd love to hear from you if you're a proven engineering leader who has led teams of 30 or more and operated as a manager of managers, and who genuinely enjoys working shoulder-to-shoulder with Product, QE, and UX as a normal part of the week rather than an exception. We're looking for someone who cares deeply about the growth of the people on their team, who leads with data and solid engineering fundamentals, and who isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves when it matters. Essential Duties include but are not limited to the following: • Raise capabilities in the engineering team; including, but not limited to, developing coding, testing, and deployment protocols and best practices. • Maintain strong relationships and transparency with key stakeholders (Lab, Sales, Support, Customers, and Affiliates). • Partner with business and technology teams to prioritize roadmaps, requirements, balance business need with capacity, and technology constraints. • Influence senior engineering and business leaders to drive increased capability though engineering processes and technologies. • Work with business stakeholders and engineering teams to design innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by the Company. • Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance. • Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them. • Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching. • Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives. • Ability to apply good process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem resolution skills. • Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. • Excellent project communication and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to execute project delivery to client satisfaction on time, on budget with quality. • Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms. • Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls, and leading in a managed service environment. • Ability to drive continuous improvements in organizational performance and efficiency, and career development for employees. • Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork. • Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures. • Regular and reliable attendance. • Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day. • Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day. Minimum Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a field related to the essential duties of the job; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor’s degree. • 10+ years of experience in Information Technology with increasing responsibility and advancing technical skills. • 5+ years of experience leading or directing people and/or project teams. • Strong proficiency of object-oriented, service-oriented architecture, micro-service architecture, and programming principals. • Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation. • Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship. Preferred Qualifications • Experience in digital experiences, e-commerce, or content-platform environments, including leading customer-facing, internet-facing, high-traffic, content-heavy portal teams at enterprise scale • Experience leading or contributing to team design and domain ownership efforts, informed by Team Topologies principles, including service decomposition and establishing clear boundaries in complex enterprise environments • Experience defining and championing non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as performance, scalability, availability, observability, and security as first-class engineering concerns across multiple teams • Expertise with integration architecture patterns including HL7, FHIR, middleware technologies, and event-driven platforms such as Kafka • Familiarity with UX design systems and the engineering practices that support consistent, scalable user experiences in a product-led organization • Healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industry experience, including internationally regulated environments The base pay for this position is $129,300.00 – $258,700.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted. JOB FAMILY: Product Development DIVISION: ONCO Cancer Diagnostics LOCATION: United States > Madison : 1 Exact Lane ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: WORK SHIFT: Standard TRAVEL: No MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: No SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

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