Director, Software Engineering

Role Description

We need an engineering leader to oversee a 50-person team building our Provider Portals and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) interoperability solutions. Your work directly enables clinicians to order genetic tests and receive critical data, removing friction between our science and patient care.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and scale an engineering organization of 50 developers.
• Improve delivery predictability, engineering velocity, and production quality.
• Drive the architecture of distributed, cloud native platforms on AWS.
• Integrate generative AI into provider workflows to streamline clinical decision making.
• Adopt AI-assisted development tools to improve our internal SDLC efficiency.
• Ensure all systems meet rigorous healthcare security and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• 10 years of software engineering experience.
• 5 years managing large engineering organizations of 50 to 150 developers.
• Deep technical background in modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, APIs) and AWS architecture.
• Experience deploying AI or generative AI solutions in production environments.
• Proven ability to ship high-quality code predictably.
• Pragmatic, decisive, and data-driven leadership style.
• Ability to dive deep into the codebase and architecture when required.
• Clear communication skills to align cross-functional product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Remote USA
• Pay range: $220,300 — $275,400 USD

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.

Company Description

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.