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.)

Experience with distributed systems monitoring and troubleshooting

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

Remote USA

$125,600—$157,000 USD