Senior Software Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain full-stack software applications and services to support Natera’s cutting-edge research and product offerings. You will work on the Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and other interfaces with the smartest people in biotech while using a variety of software technologies and tools to create impactful software. 

• We build cool things:

  • Design, develop, and maintain reliable applications and components to support lab operations, clinical trials, integrations, and more

• We do it together:

  • Work as an integral part of a distributed global development team in fast-paced environment

  • Closely collaborate with Product Management and Software Quality Assurance

  • Interact with stakeholders to understand and transform their needs into reliable, extensible, and valuable applications

  • Mentor and coach junior engineers toward technical mastery

• We welcome new ideas:

  • Design, collaborate, and implement technical designs

  • Identify, suggest, and implement improvements to the development processes and implement best practices

• We do serious stuff:

  • Operate in a regulated environment, handle Protected Health Information (PHI)

  • Familiarize yourself with HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies, Procedure Compliance, and security requirements through Natera-provided training

 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with the architecture team and drive the complex system design.

• Perform code reviews and mentor the development team with best practices.

• Make key design and technical implementation on the complex system and help guide engineering vision.

• Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements, and transform into highly scalable and reliable, developer-friendly microservices APIs

• Design, build and maintain highly sustainable systems to support our business applications.

• Continue improving process and procedure and evangelizing best practices.

• Support Production processes.

• Be a contributing team member to the end-to-end execution of compliance initiatives.

• Be responsible for practicing technical design, developing new functionality and maintaining existing components.

• This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and have access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job. 

• Must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.

• Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent

• 7+ years of overall software development experience, preferably secure, scalable web applications with Java, and other web technologies

• Experience with object-oriented programming in Java, using open source framework such as Spring Frameworks and Hibernate

• Experience with cloud technologies, AWS is preferred

• Experience with front-end development in React, Sass, JavaScript is a plus.

• Experience with micro-service enterprise architecture, cross-platform integration, and building scalable applications in heterogeneous environments

• Experience with software development lifecycle process from build, software configuration, change control, and release and deployment activities

• Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization

• Demonstrated teamwork skills with a solid analytical background

• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills

 
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Object Oriented Programming

• Spring Framework

• Relational Database and SQL Programming, prefer MySQL or PostgreSQL

• AWS Services, such as SQS, S3 and SNS

• Docker or container-oriented technologies

• REST API and Event-Driven Microservice Architecture

• Front-end technologies, such as React, Sass, Gulp, Rails, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Linux Fundamentals

• CI / CD

• Quality Assurance Mindset

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams 
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page