Software Engineering Manager – Custom LIMS Platform
Position Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the development of our Custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). This role is central to enhancing lab user experience, streamlining laboratory operations, and improving patient health.
In this position, you will partner closely with Lab Operations and R&D teams, treating them as key customers, to deliver an intuitive, efficient, and scalable LIMS platform. You will maintain a nimble engineering team, working in a Kanban mode, and drive efficiency through a “do more with less” philosophy. Your role will involve active testing of the software, ensuring high performance and usability. Your primary mission is to lead with impact and kindness, prioritizing the team’s health while balancing business needs.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Development:
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of a custom LIMS platform, ensuring seamless support for high-throughput laboratory processes.
• Maintain a hands-on role in software development, actively testing the system to improve functionality.
• Build and optimize scalable, cloud-based microservices and front-end applications to support lab workflows.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence with a focus on reliability, performance, and user experience.
• Oversee CI/CD pipeline implementation and ensure quality through automated testing strategies.
• Ensure optimal architecture and infrastructure for system scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Customer-Focused Collaboration
• Act as a bridge between engineering and lab users, gathering real-time feedback to continuously refine the LIMS system.
• Establish strong relationships with Lab Operations, R&D teams, and internal stakeholders, ensuring their needs are prioritized in system enhancements.
• Maintain an iterative Kanban-based workflow, adapting to evolving lab needs efficiently.
Team Leadership & Management:
• Guide and mentor a small but agile, incredible engineering team, ensuring continuous technical and professional growth.
• Manage development priorities, deadlines, and resources while maintaining technical excellence.
• Encourage an ownership mindset, ensuring engineers feel responsible for delivering impactful solutions.
Process Optimization & Agile Execution:
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes to maximize efficiency with minimal overhead.
• Implement best practices in software development, emphasizing modular architecture and cloud-native design.
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and proactively enhance platform stability and reliability.
Qualifications
Required Skills & Experience:
• 10+ years of experience developing software applications.
• Proven ability to lead and manage high-performance engineering teams.
• Expertise in Python, Typescript, and React with strong front-end development skills (React preferred).
• Proficiency in AWS services (Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Glue) and infrastructure as code.
• Strong relational database (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and SQL programming skills.
• Experience implementing messaging frameworks like Kafka.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with a quality assurance mindset.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical discussions.
Nice to Have:
• Experience building custom LIMS/LES systems.
• Located in Austin, TX, to engage directly with lab operations and collect live user feedback.
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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