Senior Software Engineer, Portal Application

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 design, develop, and maintain our web portal application serving providers. As a member of our engineering team, you will play a key role in improving 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 be a part of a team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about making a difference.

Senior Software Engineer - Portal Application is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of microservices for our provider-facing web portal. The role requires working with a mix of modern and legacy technologies in a rapidly changing environment and the ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and systems. Together with the talented Engineering Team, Product Managers and Designers, you will work on new and exciting experiences for our customers.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in design and technical implementation decisions and help guide key stakeholders on the team, such as product managers, UI/UX designers, to ensure that design and technical decisions meet a high standard of excellence.
• 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.
• Participate in designing, building, and maintaining highly available systems to support our business applications, users, providers, and patients.
• Perform code reviews and mentor the development team with best practices.
• Continue improving process and procedure and evangelizing best practices.
• Support QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams.
• Be a contributing team member to the end-to-end execution of compliance initiatives.
• This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and have access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job.
• Must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.
• Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS

• BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent.
• 6+ years of overall software development experience, preferably secure, scalable web applications with NodeJS, TypeScript, React, and other web technologies.
• Experience with front-end development.
• Experience with software development lifecycle process from build, software configuration, change control, release 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 and REST API design and event-driven architecture using distributed event stores (such as Kafka).
• Experience with micro-service enterprise architecture, cross-platform integration, and building scalable applications in heterogeneous environments.
• Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization.
• Demonstrated teamwork skills with a solid analytical background.
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Linux Fundamentals
• Object Oriented Programming
• Relational Database and SQL Programming, prefer MySQL or PostgreSQL
• JavaScript Programming
• Java Programming is nice to have
• 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 and REST APIS
• Event-Driven Microservice Architecture
• Experience with front-end technologies such as NextJS, React, Sass, Material, HTML, CSS, Javascript, NodeJS.
• CI / CD (Gitlab)
• Quality Assurance Mindset