Lead Software Architect

Summary

Join Natera, a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, as a talented Software Architect. You will create solution architecture for complex problems, drive projects from planning to execution, experiment with new technologies, and empower development teams. Lead the development and adoption of best practices, nurture engineers, and promote innovation. The ideal candidate possesses a solid software engineering background (10+ years), experience with cloud-based software and migrating legacy solutions, and expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and other technologies. Natera offers competitive benefits including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, free testing, fertility care benefits, and more.

Requirements

• Solid software engineering background, with 10+ years of experience developing enterprise-scale cloud-based software
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy monolithic solutions to decoupled components/services
• Experience developing large-scale application architectures to meet business requirements
• Solid understanding of software quality, 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, Kubernetes, Kafka, Gitlab, GitlabCI

Responsibilities

• Creating solution architecture to address complex problems at scale, considering both technical and business factors along with the trade-offs between immediate requirements and a long-term vision for a clean and maintainable design
• Helping drive complex 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

• 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
• Knowledge of LIMS, WDL, Snakemake, Nextflow, DNAnexus, AWS Omics, etc
• Expertise in programming languages like Java, Python, React, etc
• Experience in AI/ML

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• A generous employee referral program