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.
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.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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
- Mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and drive adoption of engineering best practices including AI tooling
- 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
- Lead the design, building, and maintenance of highly available backend systems to support our business applications, order processing, and integration with other services
- Drive quality initiatives and support QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 7+ years of overall software development experience, with focus on building secure, scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Strong experience with event-driven architecture and message processing using Apache Kafka
- Experience working with remote and hybrid teams including overseas contractors.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical best practices
- 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
- Extensive knowledge of AI processes and procedures related to SDLC
- 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 API design and implementation in Java
- Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization
- Demonstrated leadership skills with a solid analytical background
- Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Advanced Java Programming with Spring Boot expertise
- 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 API development using Java
- Apache Kafka for event streaming
- Microservice Architecture
- CI / CD (Gitlab)
- Claude/Cursor, MCPs, AI Agents, Skills, etc
- Quality Assurance Mindset
- Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito
- Expert knowledge of Spring ecosystem (Spring Data, Spring Security, etc.)
- Experience with distributed systems monitoring and troubleshooting
OUR OPPORTUNITY
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.
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.
WHAT WE OFFER
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!
For more information, visit www.natera.com.
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.
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.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents.
Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/
Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.
For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page
Skills Required
- 7+ years of overall software development experience
- Experience building secure, scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Strong experience with event-driven architecture and Apache Kafka message processing
- Experience working with remote and hybrid teams, including overseas contractors
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical best practices
- Experience with software development lifecycle, configuration, releases, and deployment activities
- Knowledge of Test-Driven Development and/or Domain-Driven Development
- Knowledge of AI processes and procedures related to the software development lifecycle
- Experience with service-oriented and microservice architecture
- Experience building, maintaining, troubleshooting, and expanding software within AWS
- Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation in Java
- Strong relational database skills, including database design and optimization
- Advanced Java programming and Spring Boot expertise
- SQL and NoSQL database experience, including MySQL, Elasticsearch, and DynamoDB
- Experience with Terraform and CloudFormation infrastructure as code
- Experience with Docker or container-oriented technologies
- Experience with CI/CD using GitLab
- Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito
- Experience with Spring ecosystem technologies, including Spring Data and Spring Security
- Experience monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Demonstrated leadership and analytical skills
- Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
Natera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Natera and has not been reviewed or approved by Natera.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical plan choice, fertility support, and free Natera tests for employees and families are emphasized alongside dental, vision, and life/disability coverage. These elements indicate robust core health coverage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is available, and equity is described as a significant part of compensation in some roles. This accessibility to ownership can meaningfully augment overall pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A flexible, no‑accrual PTO policy and parental leave are positioned as part of the package. This breadth suggests meaningful time‑off provisions are included.
Natera Insights
What We Do
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. Where some set out to build a test, we set out to achieve a mission: change the management of disease worldwide by using DNA testing to proactively inform treatment. Through a cfDNA technology platform approach, we've pioneered noninvasive testing in unlimited applications—each with their own potential to revolutionize care for patients. #TeamNatera includes clinicians, scientists, biostatisticians, researchers, and laboratory professionals from around the world. Our diverse teams blend a passion for patients with deep clinical, scientific, and technological roots. Natera’s tests are validated by more than 100 peer-reviewed publications that demonstrate high accuracy.
