New York City Hybrid Full-time USD 180,000 – 240,000 / year

Arketa is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, AI & Platform

Responsibilities

  • Develop AI products that enable studio operators to automate their operations, allowing them to focus on their most passionate business aspects.
  • Create agentic loops that enhance the product, codebase, internal systems, and our ability to deliver for customers.
  • Position the company to maximize the benefits of advancing AI models.
  • Simplify infrastructure and operations to accelerate both human and agent engineers.
  • Enhance operational rigor and automated safety nets for detecting, alerting on, and responding to production issues.
  • Work across the full stack using TypeScript, Node, NestJS, React, and Postgres to ship features and improvements daily.
  • Mentor mid-level and junior engineers, and collaborate with engineering leadership to establish patterns adopted by the entire team.
  • Take accountability not only for personal output but also for how you help the team deliver more.

Requirements

  • Typically 8+ years of software engineering experience, though evidence of capability is more important than years.
  • Full-stack contributor with deep expertise in some area, but must contribute across the stack; not suitable for those wanting to work in only one layer.
  • Background in JavaScript and TypeScript; fluency and comfort in JS/TS are required, even if coming from an adjacent ecosystem.
  • AI-native: actively uses AI tooling in daily work and builds agentic workflows, evals, and automation into team operations, not just coding assistants.
  • Scope of impact beyond a single team, influencing how engineering works in an organization of roughly 20+ engineers.
  • Track record of leading successful migrations.
  • Experience designing systems for reliability, including observability, alerting, and incident response.
  • History of influencing beyond personal work, including setting technical direction, establishing patterns others adopt, and raising the bar through code review, pairing, and mentorship.
  • Strong product judgment: ability to take an ambiguous customer problem, scope it pragmatically, and ship in small increments.
  • Comfort operating with high autonomy and low process, creating the right amount of structure rather than waiting for it.

Nice to Have

  • Personal interest in wellness and fitness.
  • Experience building for entrepreneurs or small business owners, or having been one yourself.
  • Time spent both in a larger, established engineering organization and in a high-growth startup.

Benefits

  • In-office lunch and snacks.
  • Ownership and opportunity for advancement.
  • Competitive salary and stock options.
  • Unlimited PTO designed to provide flexibility for rest, recharge, and personal needs while staying aligned with team and responsibilities.
  • Medical, dental, and vision health insurance.
  • Fitness class reimbursement to support employee wellness and industry relationships.
  • Parental leave policy.

Compensation

Competitive salary and stock options

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — NYC office in NoHo, 3 days per week

Other

  • This is a permanent individual contributor role with no management track by design.
  • This role is hybrid 3x a week to our NYC office in NoHo.
  • You Should Apply If: You want to build for small business owners and care about how your work shows up in their day to day; You want to stay hands-on at the staff level and go deeper as an IC, not move into management; You are drawn to the mission of making wellness more accessible.
  • You May Not Want to Apply If: You're looking for a path into people management in the next 12 to 18 months. This role is IC by design; You want to work in one layer of the stack only; You'd want to move us onto a different language or ecosystem; You see AI tooling as a nice-to-have rather than a core part of how you work; You want clearly scoped tickets, a defined roadmap, and a design doc before code; You want a slower pace or a more established later-stage environment.
Job Details
Location New York City
Work mode Hybrid
Employment Full-time
Salary USD 180,000 – 240,000 / year
Department Engineering
Category other
Posted a month ago
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Arketa builds the operating system for modern fitness and wellness, providing a powerful, all-in-one platform to manage and scale hybrid wellness businesses. The company makes wellness more accessible by empowering studios and wellness entrepreneurs to grow beyond in-person classes.
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