POSITION SUMMARY 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain software services and platforms to support ordering and data management for genetic lab tests.  You will help to determine which components of existing products can be transformed into these platforms, and to deploy these new services across Natera's growing line of genetic testing products.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Make key design and technical implementation decisions and help guide engineering vision.
• Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements, and transform them into scalable and reliable developer-friendly services.
• Design, build and maintain sustainable systems to support our business applications.
• Continue improving process and procedure and evangelizing best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers toward technical excellence.
• Lead the end-to-end execution of compliance initiatives.
• This role works with Protected Health Information (PHI) on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and has access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job. 
• The employee 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.
• The employee must pass a post-offer criminal background check.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent.  MS preferred
• 8+ years of overall software development experience, preferably building complex data or process management applications
• Experience with object-oriented programming in Java, preferably using an open source framework such as Spring and Hibernate
• Expertise with enterprise architecture, cross-platform integration, and building scalable applications in heterogeneous environments
• Experience with service-oriented and micro-service architectures
• Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization
• Demonstrated teamwork skills
• Solid analytical background
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Healthcare IT experience is beneficial, but not required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Object Oriented Programming
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Spring Framework
• Relational Database and SQL Programming, prefer MySQL
• AWS Services, such as SQS, S3 and SNS
• Docker or container-oriented technologies
• REST API and Micro-services architectures
• Linux/Unix
• CI / CD
• XML and JSON
• Quality Assurance Mindset 
• Nice to have: ElasticSearch or equivalent
• Nice to have: Low-code and/or Business Process Management systems

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Duties are typically performed in an office setting.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

OUR OPPORTUNITY

 Driven by the passion for elevating the science and utility of genetic testing, Natera is committed to helping families identify and manage genetic diseases. Natera is a rapidly-growing diagnostics company with proprietary bioinformatics and molecular technology for analyzing DNA. Our complex technology has been proven clinically and commercially in the prenatal testing space and we are actively researching its applications in the liquid biopsy space for developing products with oncology applications.

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. Generous Employee Referral program. Healthy catered lunches 3 times per week, and premium snacks! Additionally, we offer complimentary premium coffee drinks and teas, and other beverages.

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.