POSITION SUMMARY: Are you ready to make a real impact on people's lives and be a part of a rapidly-growing team? Natera is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help lead the design, development, and maintenance of our commercial services, a critical backend microservice that powers our business operations. As a senior member of our engineering team, you will play a key role in driving technical excellence in our order processing systems, mentoring other engineers, and helping to positively impact patient outcomes. Join us in our mission to change the way disease is managed, and be a part of a team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about making a difference.
Senior Software Engineer - Commercial Services is responsible for leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in the development and maintenance of microservices that handle sales order processing and management. The role requires strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot, working with GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures in a rapidly changing environment.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead design and technical implementation decisions and help guide key stakeholders on the team to ensure that design and technical decisions meet a high standard of excellence and ensure robust order processing capabilities
Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and drive adoption of engineering best practices including AI tooling
Work closely with Product Managers to gather requirements, walk through the design with stakeholders, and support software all the way from initial ideation to release, operation, and maintenance
Lead the design, building, and maintenance of highly available backend systems to support our business applications, order processing, and integration with other services
Drive quality initiatives and support QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams
QUALIFICATIONS:
7+ years of overall software development experience, with focus on building secure, scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot
Strong experience with event-driven architecture and message processing using Apache Kafka
Experience working with remote and hybrid teams including overseas contractors.
Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical best practices
Experience with software development lifecycle processes including building, software configuration, releases and deployment activities
Extensive knowledge and experience with Test-Driven Development and/or Domain-Driven Development
Extensive knowledge of AI processes and procedures related to SDLC
Experience with service-oriented and microservice architecture
Experience building, maintaining, troubleshooting, and expanding software within the AWS ecosystem: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, S3, etc
Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation in Java
Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization
Demonstrated leadership skills with a solid analytical background
Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Advanced Java Programming with Spring Boot expertise
SQL and NoSQL database experience including MySQL, ElasticSearch, and DynamoDB
AWS Services, such as EC2, Lambdas, Step Functions, SQS, S3, and SNS
Build infrastructure as code with Terraform and Cloud Formation
Docker or container-oriented technologies
GraphQL API development using Java
Apache Kafka for event streaming
Microservice Architecture
CI / CD (Gitlab)
Claude/Cursor, MCPs, AI Agents, Skills, etc
Quality Assurance Mindset
Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito
Expert knowledge of Spring ecosystem (Spring Data, Spring Security, etc.)
Experience with distributed systems monitoring and troubleshooting
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
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