Senior Software Engineer - Commercial Services

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.