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Salary Range
$140,000 - $200,000 /year
About the Role
Artera, a SaaS leader in digital health, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help define, evolve, and scale the platform that powers next-generation patient communication. This role will focus on agentic AI, MCP servers, and high-throughput distributed systems.
Key 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
- →Independently design and deliver large-scale features that impact multiple products or services
- →Identify and eliminate sources of instability, latency, and operational risk
- →Mentor engineers across teams
- →Foster a blameless culture that encourages learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- →Partner with product, design, and data/ML teams to translate complex technical ideas into practical solutions
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in STEM
- ✓10+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native applications
- ✓Deep experience with event-sourced, microservice, and distributed architectures
- ✓Expert at integrating LLMs and agentic tools
- ✓Advanced TypeScript skills
- ✓Expert in Node.js and NEST
- ✓Advanced proficiency in SQL, especially PostgreSQL
- ✓Experience with asynchronous, high-volume messaging or event-driven systems
- ✓Strong commitment to testing, observability, and operational excellence
- ✓Excellent communicator
- ✓Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers
- ✓Familiarity with Docker & containerized environments, AWS, Python
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)
- ★Manager development cohorts
- ★Employee development funds
- ★Generous time off
- ★Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
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