Staff Engineer -Digital Workflow Automation
About The Position
Arteraâs Engineering Digital Workflow Automation and Resource Fellows (D.W.A.R.Fs) is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help define, evolve, and scale the platform that powers next-generation patient communicationâespecially as we accelerate our work in agentic AI, Anthropic Claude & MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, and high-throughput distributed systems. This role reports directly to the Senior Engineering Manager, and is responsible for driving technical excellence across teams, and leading execution on high-risk or high-impact initiatives critical to Arteraâs long-term success. You will be a multiplier: architecting large-scale systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring our platform remains resilient, performant, and ready for the next wave of AI-driven patient engagement.
Requirements
- Bachelorâs 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 communicatorâable 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)
Nice To Haves
- Experience with large-scale remote/hybrid teams
- Contributions to open source
- Collaboration/contributions with the open source community
- Experience working with Government contracts and delivery
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 quartersâincluding 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 neededâespecially 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.
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) and more!
- Manager development cohorts, employee development funds
- Company holidays, Winter & Summer break, and flexible time off
- We believe that everyone should belong at their workplace. Our ERGs are available for identifying employees or allies to join.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
