Lead Software Architect

Summary

Join Natera as a Lead Software Architect in Austin, TX, San Carlos, CA, or remotely. You will create solution architecture for complex problems, drive technical projects, experiment with new technologies, and empower development teams. Lead the development of strategies, frameworks, and best practices. Mentor engineers in architectural design and promote innovation. Develop strategies for cost savings through reusability. This role requires a strong software engineering background (10+ years), experience with distributed systems, and expertise in AWS, serverless technologies, and more. The position offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, free testing for employees and their families, fertility care benefits, and more.

Requirements

• Solid software engineering background, with 10+ years of experience developing enterprise-scale cloud-based software
• Experience with distributed systems and decoupled solutions components/services
• Experience developing large-scale application architectures to meet business requirements
• Solid understanding of software quality and architectural risk assessment and mitigations
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Consensus-building across teams is a critical part of the job
• Ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical audiences
• Expertise in AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, Kafka, Gitlab, GitlabCI
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
• 5 years of experience in healthcare and genomics
• 5 years of experience building applications in AWS
• 2 years of experience in data privacy
• Expertise in programming languages like Typescript, Javascript, Python, Java, etc

Responsibilities

• Creating solution architecture to address complex problems at scale, considering technical and business factors and the trade-offs between immediate requirements and a long-term vision for a clean and maintainable design
• Helping drive complex technical projects from planning through execution
• Experiment with new technologies and create prototypes for the development teams
• Empowering distributed and remote development teams with framework implementations, knowledge sharing, and sustainable practices
• Leading the development and adoption of strategy, frameworks, best practices, and patterns for the software development organization
• Nurturing engineers to think with architecture and design best practices in mind, including aspects such as performance, scalability, maintainability, and security
• Promoting and driving innovation in technologies, processes, and tools
• Developing strategies to realize significant cost savings with reusability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in AI/ML, GenAI, LLM, RAG
• Familiar with custom LIMS/LES development and AI-driven lab automation, billing systems
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance and security standards in healthcare and life sciences

Benefits

• Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• 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!