Senior Back End Engineer, Invitae
$138.4-173k
Expert genetic insights
Job no longer available
Expert genetic insights
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$138.4-173k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Invitae is a medical genetics company that is focused on bringing comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine, to improve healthcare for all people at any stage of their life. Its platform is made for providers and patients, with the ability to customize genetic tests in just a few clicks, and flexible pricing that ensures the service is widely accessible.
Despite being lauded for its low selling prices and high testing volume - which makes clinical-grade genetic testing available to the masses - Invitae has received criticism for the way it has been managed. This resulted in a strategic restructuring of the company in 2022, which deprioritised the company's focus on growth, so it could focus on becoming a more sustainable business. In 2024, it listed itself as bankrupt and through a sale, was purchased by Labcorp.
Despite this tumult, Invitae's new home at Labcorp means the company can still extend its platform. Further development of Invitae will be fueled by a range of investments in the form of convertible debt due in 2028 and share exchanges.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2014
$120m
SERIES F
Dec 2013
$40m
SERIES E
Total funding: $195.5m
Company benefits
- Equity Options
- Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation days ("take all the time you need; don't let your team down") and an excellent family leave policy
- Flexible working hours and opportunities to work from home
Company values
- Team above the individual
- Radically honest communication
- Freedom with accountability
- Transparency and data-informed action
- A sense of urgency
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Kenneth Knight
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked at Amazon as Vice President, leading Middle Mile operations. Initially served as COO at Invitae, becoming CEO in 2022.
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