Staff Engineer, Senior Developer

Our mission is simple but ambitious: to use AI to fix the broken economics and lost humanity of care. If you want to move fast and help build the future of healthcare with heart, you belong at Arya.

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to set the technical direction for Arya’s platform. This role is for a senior technologist who can design scalable systems, influence architecture at the company level, and multiply the impact of our engineering team. You’ll balance hands‑on coding with leadership responsibilities, mentoring senior engineers, and driving cross‑functional initiatives.

• Architect and lead design for high-scale, multi‑tenant SaaS systems.
• Set standards for engineering quality, testing, security, and reliability.
• Own cross‑cutting technical initiatives that span multiple teams.
• Review system designs and provide guidance to senior and mid‑level engineers.
• Build tools, frameworks, and abstractions to improve developer velocity.
• Partner with leadership to align engineering execution with company strategy.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience; 3+ years as a technical lead or staff‑level engineer.
• Proven success scaling SaaS systems to enterprise‑level demands.
• Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and database design.
• Mastery of Kubernetes, CI/CD, and microservice architectures.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical direction.

• Experience in HRTech, workforce management, or data‑heavy SaaS.
• Public speaking, writing, or community contributions on technical topics.

• Completed a review of Arya’s system architecture, highlighting bottlenecks and risks.
• Partnered with engineering leadership to prioritize architectural improvements.
• Begun mentoring at least one senior engineer, pairing on design and implementation.
• Delivered your first impactful code contribution in a high‑leverage area (e.g., scaling a core service).

• Leading at least one major technical initiative (e.g., multi‑tenant scaling, developer tooling, or refactoring).