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title: 'Principal Engineer - Platform at Arya Health'
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# Principal Engineer - Platform at Arya Health

- **Company:** Arya Health
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $240k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aryahealth.ai/4a76d966-8281-495a-8e54-bed9458b58e5

## Job description

## About the Role

We’re hiring a Principal Engineer – Platform to set technical direction and own the architecture of Arya’s core systems. This is a hands-on senior leadership role. You’ll design and evolve foundational systems (APIs, data flows, infrastructure patterns, reliability standards) while acting as a force multiplier for multiple teams. You will work directly with the CTO and senior engineers to solve the hardest architectural problems in the system. If you like untangling complex systems, building primitives other teams depend on, and making engineering organizations move faster — this role is for you.

## What You’ll Own

- Platform-wide architecture across backend services and infrastructure
- Reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Developer experience and internal tooling
- Technical direction across teams
- Cross-team architectural standards
- High-impact system redesigns
- Engineering leverage and mentorship

## What You’ll Do

- Design and evolve Arya’s platform architecture across services and data systems
- Lead technical design for cross-cutting initiatives (multi-tenancy, permissions, async workflows, scaling)
- Identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks
- Establish best practices for observability, service ownership, and incident response
- Be deeply hands-on in code when it matters
- Partner with product and leadership to align technical and business strategy
- Mentor senior engineers and raise technical standards across the organization

## Who You Are

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Prior principal-level impact in at least one role
- Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems
- Strong backend engineering background
- Excellent architectural judgment
- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end
- Able to influence without authority
- Low-ego, high-ownership mindset
- Excited to build in-person with a small, high-trust team

Technical Experience We Value (Depth matters more than box-checking.)

- Backend systems in Node.js, Python
- PostgreSQL and data-heavy applications
- Distributed systems and asynchronous processing
- Cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS)
- Kubernetes and Docker
- CI/CD pipelines
- Observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
- Multi-tenant SaaS architectures

30–60–90 Day Plan (Accelerated, Principal-Level) Days 0–30 — System Mastery & Early Leverage Goal: Become dangerous fast.

- Deep dive into Arya’s platform architecture
- Audit scaling bottlenecks and reliability risks
- Build strong trust with senior engineers
- Identify 2–3 high-leverage platform improvements
- Ship at least one meaningful architectural fix

Deliverables:

- Written platform assessment
- One high-impact improvement shipped or underway
- Clear articulation of architectural risks and tradeoffs

Days 31–60 — Architecture Ownership Goal: Shape direction.

- Lead design for a cross-team architectural initiative
- Refine or establish platform standards
- Improve observability and reliability patterns
- Mentor engineers through structured design reviews

Deliverables:

- One major platform RFC approved and in execution
- Measurable improvement in system reliability or developer velocity
- Reduced architectural load on CTO

Days 61–90 — Force Multiplier Goal: The organization moves faster because you’re here.

- Own platform roadmap for next 2–3 quarters
- Proactively resolve systemic risks
- Establish platform SLAs and reliability targets
- Clarify system ownership boundaries

Deliverables:

- Platform roadmap aligned with company goals
- Clear ownership model across services
- Increased engineering velocity and stability

## OUR VALUES

You will thrive at Arya if you can:

1. Think Like a Customer We win by making our Customers feel like superheroes. This means we must always view our decisions, actions and communication through the lens of our Customers.
2. Find Small Wins Everyday We believe that speed of making decisions and taking action have a compounding effect. A series of quick, small, daily wins add up to big ones over time, and the absence of these can add up to big losses.
3. Teach and Learn Consistently We believe that giving context and sharing expertise is everyone's responsibility. We find time to talk about the Why and How of what we do in every interaction.
4. Be Prepared We believe that progress cannot be left to chance and sudden flashes of genius. We put in the time and effort to prepare ourselves and others to make the most of every opportunity.
5. Communicate Simply We communicate to be understood. This means that in a complex, global and busy world, we work hard to express our ideas in ways that others find simple and intuitive.
6. Be Kind We believe that being exceptional and being kind are not mutually exclusive. We strive to treat others with empathy, kindness and respect, even in the most challenging of times.

## WHAT WE OFFER

Arya is committed to being transformative to the careers of those who share our values, and are looking to build a generational business. We offer: The Basics:

- Competitive salary + equity
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Flexible PTO and generous parental leave
- Performance-based incentives
- Wellhub subscription with access to premium fitness facilities, team workouts

The Multipliers:

- Be part of a company that treats its values as its biggest priority
- Learn more about building and scaling a business in months than others will in years
- Have ownership, influence and impact that runs far and wide
- Work flexibly, with a focus on progress over activity
- Never sacrifice your mental health- while we work hard, we're committed to avoiding burnout at all costs

## About Arya Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arya Health builds an AI-native digital workforce of intelligent agents that automate the administrative backbone of home-based and post-acute care, handling scheduling, compliance, onboarding, payroll, and talent acquisition for healthcare providers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (some sources list 2021)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on company materials

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare technology / Healthcare administration automation
- **Target customers**: B2B — Home-based care providers, post-acute care organizations, skilled nursing facilities, and other distributed care networks (e.g., TheKey, Team Select Home Care, Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care)
- **Mission statement**: To use AI to fix the broken economics and lost humanity of care; to build a digital workforce that automates the mundane so providers can focus on patients, not paperwork

## Products & Services
- **Staffing Agent**: Digital talent acquisition specialist that automates top-of-funnel applicant engagement, pulling 30% more candidates from initial application to employment with 60% less human effort.
- **Onboarding Agent**: Accelerates new-hire readiness with 50% faster time-to-first-staffing and 70% less administrative work.
- **Compliance Agent**: Eliminates manual license tracking and reminders, automatically contacts employees about upcoming expirations, collects updates, and writes them back to the EMR. Deploys in under a week.
- **Scheduling Agent**: Matches caregivers to visits, resolves coverage gaps autonomously, and manages callouts. Locations implementing Arya see 25% more hours filled on average.
- **Payroll Agent**: On-call assistant that eliminates days of manual work and costly mistakes every pay period due to multiple rates, retroactive pay, overtime, and state/local-level complexities.
- **Engagement Agent**: Always-on performance management with zero manual effort; recognizes top performers and communicates performance lapses in real-time.
- **Intake Agent** (Coming Q4 2025): Automates start-of-care coordination and patient onboarding bottlenecks.

All agents share a unified data graph with deep EMR read/write access, multimodal communication (text, voice, email), and full compliance audit trails. They operate in co-pilot or autopilot mode.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $25 million ($18.2M Series A announced October 29, 2025, plus prior seed round)
- **Key Metric**: Revenue grew more than 6x over the 12 months prior to the Series A, pacing toward 10x year-over-year growth
- **Notable Customers**: TheKey, Team Select Home Care, Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care
- **Growth Signals**: 60 employees with +3.8% monthly headcount growth; 9 active job postings; 2,027 LinkedIn followers (+7.4% monthly); expanding into new agent types (Intake Agent) and scaling national deployments

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Per-location pricing at approximately 10% the cost of a full-time hire, with no per-seat/per-employee fees — customers get results in under 60 days or money back
- **Enterprise-ready security**: SOC2 and HIPAA compliant out-of-the-box; 99.999+% uptime
- **Deep EMR integration**: Native API integrations, authenticated web automations, and custom ETL pipelines for real-time data access
- **Unified data graph**: All agents share the same data layer with multimodal communication (text, voice, email) and full compliance audit trails
- **Co-pilot to autopilot model**: Agents augment human teams first, then fully automate as trust builds

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Building new agents (Intake Agent rolling out to design partners Q4 2025) to further compress administrative overhead
- **Scaling deployments**: Expanding implementations across national distributed care networks faster and more reliably
- **Operational excellence**: Growing the Care@Home Center of Excellence, led by former Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care CEO Melinda Phillips, to guide AI adoption across providers
- **Revenue growth**: Pacing toward 10x year-over-year growth

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "In-person, high-velocity culture" with a "builder mindset, zero bureaucracy" — described as the fastest-growing healthcare company in NYC
- **Work model**: On-site / physical office in New York, New York; employees work from physical offices
- **Mission-driven**: "To use AI to fix the broken economics and lost humanity of care" — solving one of healthcare's biggest administrative challenges
- **Benefits**: Offers company equity, pay transparency, health/dental/vision insurance, fitness stipend, free snacks and drinks, generous PTO, paid holidays, paid sick days, dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
- **Technology stack**: Modern AI/ML stack; roles include Senior Software Engineer (AI, Data, Platform), Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer
- **Team size**: ~60 employees (~12 product + tech); active hiring across engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success
- **Open roles (as of mid-2026)**: Customer AI Strategy & Success Lead, Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Intern, Staff Engineer, Business Development Representative, Senior Software Engineer (Data), Enterprise Account Executive, Principal Engineer (Platform), Senior Software Engineer (AI), Lead QA Engineer

## Sources
1. [aryahealth.ai](https://www.aryahealth.ai/)
2. [aryahealth.ai/careers](https://www.aryahealth.ai/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/aryahealth](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aryahealth)
4. [builtin.com/company/arya-health-0](https://builtin.com/company/arya-health-0)
5. [aryahealth.ai/blog/arya-series-a-ai-system-of-action-distributed-care](https://www.aryahealth.ai/blog/arya-series-a-ai-system-of-action-distributed-care)

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