Senior Full Stack 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.
This is a senior engineering role in our Interpretation Platform Engineering team, which develops full-stack applications for our internal scientists. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you are encouraged to own and deliver projects with multiple collaborators, identify novel solutions to open-ended and ambiguous problems, and work across teams and subject areas to deliver software features that drive measurable business outcomes with a well-planned technical roadmap and timely execution. You will develop the abilities of less experienced team members by demonstrating sound technical decision-making, generative teamwork and communication skills, and software development practices that improve the team and organization.
What you’ll do:
- Design and implement full-stack software components, systems, and features for major in-flight initiatives
- Work with product and design teams to ensure user-centric development
- Handle individual project priorities, deadlines, and work aligned with the Interpretation Platform’s roadmap
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Understand user requirements and translate those into reliable and scalable system designs
- Help level up the team through mentorship and training on design techniques and coding standards
- Raise the technical bar for how we develop complex, scalable, and reliable systems
- Build clarity out of ambiguous and complex problems
- Advocate for engineering excellence and communicate the benefits of standard methodologies to the team
- Balance operations, maintenance, and new projects in a pragmatic way
What you bring:
- Typically 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.
- Demonstrated experience with React.js, Typescript
- Proficiency in a technical stack from infrastructure to application code with strong front end application development experience. We use AWS, Python, Django, Typescript, React.JS on Kubernetes using Github Actions
- UX design and development skills
- Deep technical knowledge around web application architectures, protocols, APIs, and developer tools
- Proven ability to design and deliver complex and maintainable software systems and features
- Experience with modern tooling and best practices including, but not limited to, CI/CD, observability, containerization, distributed event/streaming platforms
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills especially across distributed teams
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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