Invitae Corporation

Invitae Corporation

United States

Senior Software Engineer – Full-stack

$135,000-$200,000 / YEAR

Invitae is a healthcare technology company that leverages genetic information to empower doctors and patients to make informed medical decisions. Our software engineers work on a variety of projects ranging from innovations in healthcare systems to taming the chaos of biology. We’re constantly improving our tools and technologies to deliver the highest quality actionable information for patient health. If you want to apply your knowledge and skills to improve the lives of millions of people join our team.

About our team:

Invitae needs experienced engineers with diverse backgrounds to help us achieve our mission – provide genetic information to billions of people.  We are a cross-functional team of scientific domain experts and dedicated, curious engineers. We build systems that take massive amounts of genomic data, combine it with the world’s scientific literature, add to it years of rigorously curated results, and package it all neatly for our scientists to consume. It’s a lot of information. As the data gets bigger, our systems need to get better and faster. That’s where you come in.

What you will do:

  • Help define and build new features or applications based on technology and business needs.
  • Minimum 5 years experience and Bachelors in Engineering
  • Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
  • Lead technical efforts for internal or external customer needs.
  • Support your teammates by continuing to learn and grow.

What you bring:

  • Industry experience with full stack architecture and distributed systems.
  • Multiple years of industry experience with backend or frontend frameworks such as:
    • Python/Django
    • TypeScript/React
    • Other common industry standards
  • Hands on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, etc.).  Tuning and query optimization a plus.
  • Top notch communication skills.  Experience with distributed teams is a plus.
  • A mission-oriented mindset and a desire to never stop learning.

We are a remote first company. We have offices all over the US in the following locations viz. Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, Irvine, San Diego, Boulder, Austin, Cambridge, New York, Raleigh. We are flexible and if an employee prefers a hybrid model, we can make it happen once Covid situation gets under control, until then we encourage and prefer for our employee’s safety and wellbeing a remote work.


About Invitae Corporation

Invitae is on a mission to drive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Understanding what your DNA means for health can transform lives. Our goal is to make it affordable and accessible to everyone who can benefit.  Our dedication to that mission is fueling explosive growth, and our test volume and revenue have doubled year-over-year for the past four years. But what we’re proudest of is that our team has helped hundreds of thousands of patients get answers they need.  Medical genetics is complex.  Medical genetics means solving challenging problems across vast data sets. We want to deliver expert-level genetic answers to patients at scale. We need the best, most passionate people to help us get there. Invitae offers the opportunity to do deeply meaningful work – work that will help shape the future of medicine -- and could help your own family.  Our engineers are critical.   Invitae’s platform is setting the standard for the exploding medical genetics industry by harnessing technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software engineering, together with world-class genetic expertise to provide information that helps patients facing a wide array of health concerns.  But to do this at scale requires vertical integration of vast, complex data and sophisticated multidisciplinary approaches. We need top engineers to help us develop solutions that push our efforts forward.  Our opportunity for growth and impact is vast, which means yours is too. Invitae offers the potential for incredible growth and the opportunity to do the most important work of your career – work that could span decades as medical genetics revolutionizes healthcare.  Our team has the freedom to create answers. Our culture is grounded in freedom with responsibility, guided by a shared sense of urgency and ownership. Employees are empowered to speak up, try new things and make decisions that push us forward. We provide all employees with opportunities to grow and advance, supported by flexible work hours, unlimited paid time off, the ability to work anywhere for many roles and the satisfaction of doing meaningful work. Invitae is building the future of medicine today.