Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Natera as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and maintenance of the LIMS application and related software. You will be a primary technical lead, providing design solutions and team leadership. Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements, translate them into applications, and make key design and implementation decisions. Maintain a holistic view of processes and systems, leverage existing functionality, and integrate enterprise systems. Improve development processes, develop automated tests, and provide production support. This role requires a BS in computer science or equivalent, 10+ years of software development experience (with Java, web services, and databases), and excellent communication skills. Remote work is available in the USA.

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, preferably using open-source frameworks such as Spring Frameworks and Hibernate
• 10+ years of experience with web services (REST, etc), XML/JSON, and Oracle or other relational databases
• Excellent communication
• Commitment to diversity in engineering
• Object Oriented Programming
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Spring Framework
• REST API and Event-Driven Microservice Architectures
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Docker or container-oriented technologies
• Relational Database and SQL Programming, prefer MySQL or PostgreSQL
• AWS Services, such as SQS, S3 and SNS
• CI / CD
• Quality Assurance Mindset
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders and users to define requirements
• Translate requirements into reliable and extensible operations-friendly applications in Java
• 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
• 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 a LabVantage LIMS application
• Experience in configuration and customization of commercial off-the-shelf product LIMS system to support order to result workflows
• Experience with front-end web programming, preferably with modern JavaScript frameworks (react, angular, etc.)
• Healthcare IT experience
• Familiarity with regulated environments

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