Senior Back End Engineer
Invitae is a leading medical genetics company trusted by millions of patients and their providers to deliver timely genetic information using digital technology. We aim to provide accurate and actionable answers to strengthen medical decision-making for individuals and their families. Invitae's genetics experts apply a rigorous approach to data and research, serving as the foundation of their mission to bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people.
As a Senior Software Engineer of the Identity team, you will be responsible for Invitae’s mission-critical authentication and authorization systems. Thousands of patients and providers use these systems daily to access Invitae’s testing capabilities and find answers to their most pressing health questions. Invitae’s business depends on these systems operating securely, reliably, and efficiently to ensure our patients get accurate results in a timely manner.
In this role, you will be instrumental in building our next patient data service that will securely store all of our patient data from different sources. These new services will have a new user model that will allow for organizational hierarchy that will work with customers existing SSO. This is a major company initiative which is critical for us to realize our mission of improving healthcare for billions of people.
What you will do:
- Work across the organization to plan and execute large, cross-functional initiatives, including: project definition, technical specification, task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance
- Design and implement software systems and services critical for the company’s success
- Work cross-functionally to ensure the alignment between the technical direction and business needs across stakeholders
- Mentor engineers by providing strong guidance and technical leadership across code, design, and operation
- Estimate and manage team project timelines and risks
- Conduct technical and soft skill evaluations to inform and influence the hiring decisions
- Lead cross-team engineering initiatives
What you bring:
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience. Any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities.
- Expert understanding and experience of client-server architecture and distributed microservices systems
- Expert system architecting capability to see the big picture and envision how business and product requirements can be broken up into system modules or components
- Experience with Terraform and AWS
- Proficiency in at least one more modern programming language, and the ability to understand more than one. We currently use Python and Kotlin
- Expert technical knowledge around web application architectures, communication protocols, API design (REST, RPC, etc), etc
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills especially across distributed teams
- A system architect who can see the big picture and envision how business and product requirements can be broken up into system modules or components
- Intrinsic self-motivation to work independently with minimal supervision
This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and location. This position is eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, flexible paid time off, Spring Health, Carrot Fertility, participation in a 401k with company match, ESPP, and many other additional voluntary benefits. Invitae also offers generous paid leave programs so you can spend time with your new child, recover from your own illness or care for a sick family member.
USA National Pay Range
$138,400—$173,000 USD
Please apply even if you don’t meet all of the “What you bring” requirements noted. It’s rare that someone checks every single item, it’s ok, we encourage you to apply anyways.
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