Hybrid Staff Engineer – Digital Workflow Automation

at Artera

• Job title: Staff Engineer – Digital Workflow Automation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $139,000 - $200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, JavaScript, Node.js, Postgres, Python, SQL, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Barbara, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer driving technical excellence across teams at Artera, a SaaS leader in digital health transforming patient experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a domain expert in backend architecture, distributed systems, and high-throughput IO.
• Drive company-wide architectural patterns, platform strategy, and engineering standards.
• Lead execution on complex, open-ended projects spanning multiple quarters—including 2026 initiatives in agentic AI and MCP server infrastructure.
• Own cross-team architectural buy-in and guide teams through refactors and modernization efforts.
• Independently design and deliver large-scale features that impact multiple products or services.
• Systematically reason through system-wide implications, edge cases, and performance trade-offs
• Agent and Government work collaboration and delivery
• Identify and eliminate sources of instability, latency, and operational risk.
• Build from scratch when needed—especially for distributed IO-intensive systems.
• Model engineering maturity through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, and technical communication.
• Mentor engineers across teams; elevate their understanding of architecture, debugging, reliability, and AI-era best practices.
• Foster a blameless culture that encourages learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Champion transparency, clear communication, and strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Partner closely with product, design, and data/ML teams to translate complex technical ideas into practical, user-centered solutions. Strong Communication and technical interpretation is key
• Provide architectural guidance on story-level decisions within your domain.
• Advocate for engineering-focused improvements in process, tooling, reliability, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
• Cross team function experience working with multiple orgs creating influence and delivery
• 7+ years building and scaling cloud-native applications
• Deep experience with event-sourced, microservice, and distributed architectures
• Expert at integrating LLMs and agentic tools like Claude Code to automate and enhance development workflows.
• Advanced TypeScript skills, focusing on building scalable, type-safe, and high-performance backend services.
• Expert in Node.js and NEST, with a focus on modular system design and enterprise-level API structures.
• Fullstack proficiency primary language Javascript & TypeScript
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, especially PostgreSQL schema design and optimization
• Experience with asynchronous, high-volume messaging or event-driven systems
• Strong commitment to testing, observability, and operational excellence
• Excellent communicator—able to influence stakeholders and product
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers
• Strong customer empathy and an understanding of how technical decisions influence user experience
• Familiarity with Docker & containerized environments, AWS (or similar cloud providers), Python (for platform tools, services, or ML integrations)

Benefits

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Company paid life insurance
• Company paid short-term & long-term disability
• Company equity
• Voluntary benefits
• 401(k)
• Generous time off (Company holidays, Winter & Summer break, and flexible time off)
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)