<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> </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> </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> </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> </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, S