Artera

Staff Engineer – Digital Workflow Automation

Artera

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Barbara • California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $139,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresPythonSQLTypeScript

About the role

  • 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)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
backend architecturedistributed systemshigh-throughput IOcloud-native applicationsevent-sourced architecturemicroservice architectureTypeScriptNode.jsNESTSQL
Soft skills
communicationmentoringcross-functional collaborationinfluencing stakeholderscustomer empathyleadershipproblem-solvingtechnical interpretationblameless culturecontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science