Staff Software Engineer, AI & Platform

About the role

The Staff Software Engineer, AI & Platform will design and ship customer‑facing AI products, modernize core architecture, improve observability and CI, and deliver full‑stack features (TypeScript, Node, NestJS, React, Postgres) while mentoring engineers and shaping engineering practices across a small, senior, fully‑distributed team. The role is a permanent individual contributor position, remote within the U.S., with no management track.

About the company

Arketa is building an operating system for modern fitness and wellness, offering an all‑in‑one platform that lets studios and wellness entrepreneurs manage schedules, bookings, payments, video libraries, retreats, marketing, and branded apps/websites. The Series A‑funded startup aims to make wellness more accessible and is rapidly growing in a fast‑moving space.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with evidence of impact over seniority.
• Full‑stack contributor mindset; comfortable working across all layers of the stack.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript proficiency; fluency in the JS/TS ecosystem.
• AI‑native: regularly uses AI tooling and builds agentic workflows, evaluations, and automation.
• Demonstrated impact beyond a single team, influencing engineering practices across ~20+ engineers.
• Proven track record of leading successful migrations.
• Experience designing reliable systems with observability, alerting, and incident response.
• History of setting technical direction, establishing patterns, and raising the bar through code review, pairing, and mentorship.
• Strong product judgment to scope ambiguous problems and ship incremental solutions.
• Ability to thrive with high autonomy and low process, creating necessary structure proactively.
• Bonus: personal interest in wellness and fitness.
• Bonus: experience building for entrepreneurs or small business owners.
• Bonus: experience in both large established engineering orgs and high‑growth startups.