Software Engineer III, Commercial Services

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to design, develop, and maintain critical backend microservices that support their business operations and positively impact patient outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in 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
• 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
• Participate in designing, building, and maintaining highly available systems to support our business applications, order processing, and integration with other services
• Support QA activities in conjunction with our QA engineering teams

Requirements:

• 5+ 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 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
• 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
• Strong AI and tooling skills
• Demonstrated teamwork skills with a solid analytical background
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Java Programming with Spring Boot expertise
• SQL and NoSQL database experience including MySQL and ElasticSearch
• 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)
• Quality Assurance Mindset
• Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Jest
• Familiarity with Spring ecosystem (Spring Data, Spring Security, etc.)
• Claude/Cursor/Codex etc