Are you ready to take your software engineering career to the next level and lead a rapidly-growing team making a real impact on people’s lives? Natera is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help design, develop, and maintain our web portal application serving providers and patients in the oncology space. As a leader of our engineering team, you will play a key role in guiding the improvement of the user experience and functionality, ultimately helping to positively impact patient outcomes. Join us in our mission to change the way cancer is managed, and lead a team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about making a difference.

The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for driving the technical vision and strategy for our user-facing web portals and ensuring the implementation of highly scalable and robust microservices. This role requires a highly experienced software engineer who can work with a mix of modern and legacy technologies in a rapidly changing environment and adapt quickly to new technologies and systems.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead Natera’s oncology portal team from an engineering perspective

• Lead the technical design and implementation decisions, guiding the team and key stakeholders on best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies.

• Partner with Product Managers to gather requirements, lead the design walk-through with stakeholders, and ensure the software is delivered from initial ideation to release, support, and maintenance.

• Drive the design, build, and maintenance of highly available systems to support our business applications, users, providers, and patients.

• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, guiding their professional development and growth.

• Assist with the leadership of QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

• 7+ years of overall software development experience, with a strong background in building secure, scalable web applications with Java, NodeJS, TypeScript, and other web technologies.

• Expertise in object-oriented programming in Java, with a deep understanding of open source frameworks such as Spring Frameworks and Hibernate.

• Strong front-end development skills are preferred.

• Extensive knowledge and experience with the software development lifecycle processes, including building, software configuration, releases, and deployment activities.

• Proven experience with Test-Driven Development and/or Domain-Driven Development.

• Strong knowledge of 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 and REST API design and event-driven architecture using distributed event stores (such as Kafka)

• Demonstrated ability to manage and optimize relational databases.

• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to lead and mentor a team, as well as excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Expertise in Object Oriented Programming.

• In-depth knowledge of Java Enterprise Edition.

• Strong understanding of the Spring Framework.

• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, ElasticSearch, and DynamoDB.

• Experience with AWS Services, such as EC2, Lambdas, Step Functions, SQS, S3, and SNS

• Experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform and Cloud Formation

• Experience with Docker or container-oriented technologies.

• Expertise in GraphQL and REST APIs.

• Proven ability to design and lead the development of microservice architecture.

• Strong front-end development skills, including experience with technologies such as React, Sass, Gulp, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node.

• In-depth knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Gitlab.

• Quality Assurance mindset and a focus on delivering high-quality software products.

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