Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Natera as a Principal Software Engineer and lead the design, development, and maintenance of lab applications. You will be a primary technical lead, guiding other engineers and product managers. Key responsibilities include defining requirements with stakeholders, translating them into applications, making design and implementation decisions, and integrating enterprise systems. The role requires a BS in computer science or equivalent, 10+ years of software development experience, and expertise in Java and Python. Preferred qualifications include experience with specific systems and front-end technologies. Natera 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

• BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent
• 10+ years of overall software development experience, preferably building complex data or process management applications in production
• 10 + years of experience with object-oriented programming in Java and/or Python, preferably using open-source frameworks such as Spring Frameworks, Hibernate, Flask
• 10+ years of experience with web services (REST, etc), XML/JSON, and Oracle or other relational databases
• Excellent communication
• Commitment to diversity in engineering

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders and users to define requirements
• Translate requirements into reliable and extensible operations-friendly applications in Java and Python
• Work with an engineering team to make key design and technical implementation decisions
• Have a holistic view of processes and systems involved in taking patient samples from order to result in a multi-product clinical laboratory
• Understand results, interpretation and reporting platform features and propose solutions that present trade-off analysis and make best use of the platform
• Leverage off-the-shelf or existing functionality whenever possible so development resources can be focused on unmet needs
• Integrate other enterprise systems and services to create seamless business processes
• Improve development process and procedure and evangelize best practices
• Develop and maintain automated tests
• Provide second-tier production support

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing, configuring, and implementing external applications and integrations with variant curation, dry lab and reporting systems
• Experience with front-end web programming, preferably with modern JavaScript frameworks (react, angular, etc.)
• Healthcare IT experience

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
• Generous employee referral program