Senior Software Engineer - Commercial Services

<p><span style="color: #000000;">POSITION SUMMARY: Are you ready to make a real impact on people's lives and be a part of a rapidly-growing team? Natera is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help lead the design, development, and maintenance of our commercial services, a critical backend microservice that powers our business operations. As a senior member of our engineering team, you will play a key role in driving technical excellence in our order processing systems, mentoring other engineers, and helping to positively impact patient outcomes. Join us in our mission to change the way disease is managed, and be a part of a team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about making a difference.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">Senior Software Engineer - Commercial Services is responsible for leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in the development and maintenance of microservices that handle sales order processing and management. The role requires strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot, working with GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures in a rapidly changing environment.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:</span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">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</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and drive adoption of engineering best practices including AI tooling</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">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</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Lead the design, building, and maintenance of highly available backend systems to support our business applications, order processing, and integration with other services</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Drive quality initiatives and support QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">QUALIFICATIONS:</span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">7+ years of overall software development experience, with focus on building secure, scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Strong experience with event-driven architecture and message processing using Apache Kafka</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience working with remote and hybrid teams including overseas contractors.</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical best practices</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with software development lifecycle processes including building, software configuration, releases and deployment activities</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Extensive knowledge and experience with Test-Driven Development and/or Domain-Driven Development</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Extensive knowledge of AI processes and procedures related to SDLC</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with service-oriented and microservice architecture</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience building, maintaining, troubleshooting, and expanding software within the AWS ecosystem: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, S3, etc</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation in Java</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Demonstrated leadership skills with a solid analytical background</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:</span></p> <ul> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Advanced Java Programming with Spring Boot expertise</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">SQL and NoSQL database experience including MySQL, ElasticSearch, and DynamoDB</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">AWS Services, such as EC2, Lambdas, Step Functions, SQS, S3, and SNS</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Build infrastructure as code with Terraform and Cloud Formation</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Docker or container-oriented technologies</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">GraphQL API development using Java</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Apache Kafka for event streaming</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Microservice Architecture</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">CI / CD (Gitlab)</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Claude/Cursor, MCPs, AI Agents, Skills, etc</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Quality Assurance Mindset</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Expert knowledge of Spring ecosystem (Spring Data, Spring Security, etc.)</span></li> <li style="color: #000000 !important;"><span style="color: #000000;">Experience with distributed systems monitoring and troubleshooting</span></li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description">The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years &amp; depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.</div><div class="title">Remote USA</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$125,600</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$157,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>OUR OPPORTUNITY</strong></p> <p>Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.</p> <p>The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.</p> <p><strong>WHAT WE OFFER</strong></p> <p>Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, 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!</p> <p>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.natera.com/" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.natera.com/">www.natera.com</a>.</p> <p>Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.</p> <p>All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.</p> <p><em>If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents.&nbsp;</em></p> <p>Link: <a href="https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents" target="_blank">https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/</a></p> <p>Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @<a href="http://natera.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://natera.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657718972773000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3zRwaIiu7070kJKNG4hjRm">natera.com</a>&nbsp;email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. 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