Software Engineer - Patient Experience

About the role

Natera is seeking a Software Engineer to help design, develop, and maintain our web portal application serving patients. 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. This role is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of services for our patient-facing web portal and adjacent microservices. 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.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design and technical implementation decisions and help guide key stakeholders on the team, such as product managers and 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.
• Support QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of overall software development experience, preferably with secure, scalable web applications using NodeJS, TypeScript, React, and other web technologies.
• Experience with front-end development.
• 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 and REST API design and event-driven architecture using distributed event stores (such as Kafka).
• Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization.
• Demonstrated teamwork skills with a solid analytical background.
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

Skills

• JavaScript Programming
• Java Programming (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 CloudFormation.
• Docker or container-oriented technologies.
• GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Microservice Architecture.
• Front-end technologies such as React, Sass, Material, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.
• CI/CD (GitLab).
• Quality Assurance Mindset.

Pay

Remote USA: $105,700—$132,100 USD. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific office location.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
• Free testing for Natera employees and their immediate families.
• Fertility care benefits.
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave.
• 401k benefits.
• Commuter benefits.
• Generous employee referral program.