Staff Software Engineer, AI & Platform

The role

A Staff Software Engineer will build customer-facing AI products and modernize core architecture. You will build agentic loops, CI, and observability to help a small team ship at a fast pace.

What you will do

• Build AI products that let studio operators automate their operations
• Build agentic loops that improve the product, codebase, and internal systems
• Position the company to get the most out of AI models
• Simplify infrastructure and operations to make human and agent engineers faster
• Improve operational rigor and automated safety nets
• Work across the stack (TypeScript, Node, NestJS, React, Postgres) to ship features daily
• Mentor mid and junior engineers
• Partner with engineering leadership to establish patterns
• Be accountable for how you help the team deliver more

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in most cases
• Full-stack contributor
• JavaScript and TypeScript background
• AI-native
• Scope of impact beyond a single team
• A track record of leading successful migrations
• Experience designing systems for reliability: observability, alerting, incident response
• A history of influencing beyond your own work, including setting technical direction, establishing patterns, and mentorship
• Strong product judgment

Nice to have

• You care about wellness and fitness personally
• You've built for entrepreneurs or small business owners before, or perhaps you’ve been one yourself
• You’ve spent time both within a larger, established engineering org and within a high-growth startup

Benefits

• In-office lunch and snacks
• Ownership and Opportunity for Advancement
• Competitive Salary and Stock Options
• Unlimited PTO
• Medical, dental and vision health insurance
• Fitness Class Reimbursement
• Parental Leave Policy

About the company

Arketa is building the operating system for modern fitness and wellness. They provide a platform to manage and scale hybrid wellness businesses.