Engineering Manager, LIMS Platform

Our software teams build out new functionality, maintain, and support the custom-built software systems that have enabled Invitae to scale to millions of samples processed. We address horizontal requirements like monitoring, alerting, security, scalability, and technology transformations at the platform level. This allows the product teams to focus on delivering new tests to our customers quickly. 

The genetic testing space is moving and growing quickly. In support of the Invitae mission, our systems need to be reliable, scalable, and easy to build. We are looking for an engineering leader who can guide us through this transformation. Your experience, passion, and leadership skills will lay the foundation for Invitae’s continued success.

This is an Engineering Manager role for our LIMS Platform team. The incumbent would support a team of software engineers, own the engineering roadmap, and collaborate with various business stakeholders. 

What you'll do:

• Build and deliver the team’s vision and roadmap by combining your deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership
• Communicate and promote the value of the platform to engineering teams and business stakeholders
• Understand stakeholder requirements and translate those into outstanding developer experiences
• Work across all subject areas with partners to move software initiatives forward and ensure internal adoption
• Build a team environment where engineers are empowered to grow in their skills and responsibilities while delivering their best work
• Lead the team from ambiguity to clarity by maintaining stability, transparency, and alignment with business objectives
• Analyze data from multiple sources and help the team make the right trade-offs between capability, cost, engineering complexity, and other factors
• Define, track, and report on key metrics related to your team’s software systems
• Maintain the team’s focus on the shared vision 

What you bring:

• Typically a minimum of 8 years of software development and management experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree.
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of engineers and participating in the entire employee lifecycle; recruiting, onboarding, performance & growth management
• Proficiency in one or more technical stacks from infrastructure to application code with strong full-stack application development experience. We use AWS, Python, Django, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Typescript, Kafka, RMQ, React on Kubernetes using GitHub Actions, and New Relic as the observability & monitoring platform 
• Proven ability to lead internal platform initiatives from inception to production with internal and external customers
• Experience balancing operations, maintenance, and new projects in a pragmatic way
• Deep technical knowledge of web application architectures, APIs, and developer tools
• Demonstrated ability to identify and reconcile misalignment across engineering teams, product teams, and business collaborators
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present sophisticated data and information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences, including executives and technical/non-technical leaders

By joining Invitae, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s experts in genetics and healthcare at the forefront of genetic medicine. We’ve crafted a culture that empowers our teams and teammates to have the most significant impact and explore their interests and capabilities. We prize freedom with accountability and offer significant flexibility, excellent benefits and competitive compensation in a fast-growing organization.