Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Natera, a rapidly growing company, as a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of our Order Management Service, a crucial backend microservice. You will play a key role in driving technical excellence, mentoring other engineers, and positively impacting patient outcomes. This position requires strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot, working with GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures. As a senior member of the engineering team, you will lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive best practices. Natera offers a competitive compensation package and benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, free testing for employees and their families, fertility care benefits, and more.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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)
• 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

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
• Remote USA