Contract Software Engineer, Full Stack

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Job description

POSITION LOCATION & DURATION:

This is a six-month hybrid (one day a week onsite in San Carlos, CA) contract role with hourly compensation. There is potential to extend or convert to full-time based on performance and business needs.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

As a Software Engineer, Full Stack you will design, develop, and maintain full-stack software applications, APIs, and data services that support our Sample Management and analytics platform. You have experience building user-facing web applications and have a passion for great user experience with a great eye for design. You're comfortable leveraging APIs and services, local and cloud-based, to deliver these experiences to users. You'll use these skills, along with tools like React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Snowflake, dbt, AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3), and AWS CDK. Together with the talented Engineering Team, Product Managers and Designers, you will work on new and exciting experiences for our customers.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with the architecture and product teams to drive complex system design
• Perform code reviews and mentor the development team with best practices
• Make key design and technical implementation decisions on complex systems and help guide engineering vision
• Work closely with stakeholders to define requirements, and transform them into highly scalable and reliable, developer-friendly REST microservice APIs
• Design, build, and maintain highly sustainable systems to support our business applications, including data pipelines and analytics services on Snowflake

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of overall software development experience, preferably secure, scalable web applications with frontend and backend web technologies

The following are specifically desirable:

• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with Python and modern backend frameworks, especially FastAPI (with Pydantic and Uvicorn)
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
• Experience with React for frontend development, ideally with Material UI and Vite
• Experience with Docker, AWS ECS (Fargate), and infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK
• Experience with cloud providers, AWS is preferred
• Experience with data warehousing and analytics, especially Snowflake and dbt
• Experience with databases including SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and cloud data platforms
• Experience with micro-service enterprise architecture, cross-platform integration, and building scalable applications in heterogeneous environments
• Experience with the software development lifecycle process from build, software configuration, change control, and release and deployment activities
• Strong relational database skills including database design and optimization
• Demonstrated teamwork skills with a solid analytical background
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Full-stack web application programming
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, Pandas)
• React (with Material UI, built via Vite)
• Relational Database and SQL Programming, prefer PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Snowflake and dbt for data warehousing and transformation
• REST APIs and other web service backend technologies
• AWS infrastructure
• AWS Services, such as ECS (Fargate), Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, ECR, EFS, Secrets Manager, and Redshift
• Infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK (TypeScript)
• Docker and container-oriented technologies
• CI / CD, specifically GitLab CI
• Automated testing with pytest, Vitest, and Playwright
• Identity and integration platforms such as Okta (SSO), Jira, and Slack
• Quality Assurance Mindset; Nice to have: familiarity with regulated environment

OUR OPPORTUNITY

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.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams 
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page 

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How San Carlos compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, San Carlos is #137 by population, #5 for household income (#1 = highest), #8 for remote work (#1 = most), #15 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, San Mateo County, is #2 of 58 counties for average pay ($196,441).

The place in numbers

San Carlos has 29,614 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.1% of the population of California. It covers 5 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 5,472 people per square mile. The median age is 41.7, 10% older than the state median (41.7 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,854 a month (rent plus utilities), 40% above the state median ($2,854 against $2,036). Over a year that is 14.4% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is above $2 million (the ACS reports $2,000,001 as its highest value, so the true median is higher), which is at least 8.4 times the median household income ($237,470); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 67.8% of households own their home, 21% above the state average (67.8% against 55.9%).

Work and pay

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area has 2,373,920 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $74,260 a year, 46% above the national median ($74,260 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (226,320 jobs, median $62,120); management (223,100 jobs, median $176,340); business and financial operations (207,030 jobs, median $112,960). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.8 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($176,340) and computer and mathematical ($167,770). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of San Mateo County was 3.9%. 69.8% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in San Mateo County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 52.4% drive alone, 3.2% use public transit, 1.2% walk, 35.0% work from home. 14.9% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 23% below the state average (14.9% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

70.2% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 89% above the state share (70.2% against 37.1%). 25.9% of residents were born outside the United States, 4% below the state share (25.9% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 3.3%, 72% below the state rate (3.3% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Sep, averaging 61°F (16.0°C), and the coolest is Jan at 51°F (10.7°C). About 515 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (115 mm) and Jul the driest (2 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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