Senior Software Engineer (HUN)
Artera
Software Engineering
Budapest, Hungary
Posted on Aug 16, 2025
ABOUT ARTERA
Our Mission: Make healthcare #1 in customer service.
What We Deliver: Artera, a SaaS leader in digital health, transforms patient experience with AI-powered virtual agents (voice and text) for every step of the patient journey. Trusted by 1,000+ provider organizations — including specialty groups, FQHCs, large IDNs and federal agencies — engaging 100 million patients annually. Artera’s virtual agents support front desk staff to improve patient access including self-scheduling, intake, forms, billing and more. Whether augmenting a team or unleashing a fully autonomous digital workforce, Artera offers multiple virtual agent options to meet healthcare organizations where they are in their AI journey. Artera helps support 2B communications in 109 languages across voice, text and web. A decade of healthcare expertise, powered by AI.
Our Impact: Trusted by 900+ provider organizations — including specialty groups, FQHCs, large IDNs and federal agencies — engaging 100 million patients annually.
Our award-winning culture: Our award-winning culture: Since founding in 2015, Artera has consistently been recognized for its innovative technology, business growth, and named a top place to work. Examples of these accolades include: Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024); Built In Best Companies to Work For (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). Artera has also been recognized by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers,” Newsweek as one of the “World’s Best Digital Health Companies,” and named one of the top “44 Startups to Bet your Career on in 2024” by Business Insider.
SUMMARY
At Artera, we're building the heart of modern healthcare communication. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a foundational part of the ReferRum team, scaling the core messaging infrastructure that powers our flagship product: patient scheduling, referrals, and post-discharge messaging. You’ll get to experience the rapid innovation of a startup while tackling the complex challenges of a highly regulated industry.
This is a rare opportunity to move beyond writing code and into a role that is truly about architecting resilient solutions. You'll primarily focus on our back-end systems, but also contribute to front-end development, making you a crucial asset in shaping the future of our product from discovery to delivery. This role is perfect for a back-end leaning engineer who is accountable, has a passion for solving problems at scale, and the drive to build lasting solutions in a high-impact space. You are a curious and adaptable individual who can pivot quickly and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect, design, and lead the development of scalable, reliable, and secure back-end services for our core platform, including patient self-scheduling, messaging campaigns, and post-discharge reporting.
- Take ownership of features from ideation through to production, tackling complex problems with a strong sense of accountability and pride in your work.
- Collaborate with engineers and product managers across teams to understand how our products integrate with other systems and vendors, navigate technical trade-offs, and drive a cohesive product strategy.
- Ensure high observability of production systems, proactively identifying and raising issues that arise in product or team meetings.
- Participate in a paid on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure platform stability.
- Contribute to front-end feature development, collaborating with designers and other engineers to deliver a seamless user experience.
- Champion best practices in code quality, testing, and system design, mentoring junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience building web applications that can handle scale.
- Proven expertise with back-end technologies (Production expeirence in Typescript or Javascript highly preferred, but NOT required)
- Experience in a highly regulated industry.
- Solid understanding of relational databases, ideally Postgres.
- Experience with on-call rotation.
- Fluent in both spoken and written English and Hungarian.
- Strong analytical skills with a keen attention to detail, allowing you to audit your work and think about potential problems that come up around your area of ownership.
BONUS
- Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
- Experience with event-based architecture, such as Kafka.
- Proven experience mentoring junior developers and leading technical projects.
- Experience with microservice architecture.
LOCATION
Our company HQ is in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, but we are growing our team based out of our Budapest office. We are looking for candidates that currently live in and are eligible to work in Hungary. This position will be required to come into our office in Budapest based on a limited schedule determined by the team you join.
WORKING AT ARTERA
Career development - Mentorship program, manager development cohorts, individual learning stipend.
Generous time off - Company holidays, wellness days, and flexible time off.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) - We believe that everyone should belong at their workplace. Our ERGs are available for identifying employees or allies to join.
Interested in learning more? Please visit our LinkedIn page or our Life at Artera Instagram (@artera_io) to hear from our employees about working at Artera.
Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Artera is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fair and equitable hiring practices. All hiring decisions at Artera are based on strategic business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All candidates are considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other protected status.
With that said, research shows that women and other underrepresented groups apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria. Artera is committed to leveling the playing field, and we encourage you to apply for positions even if you do not meet 100% of the criteria. We would love to connect with you and see if you would be a great fit for our role!
We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace, where everyone feels safe to be themselves and diversity is a strength. Artera is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment; Artera will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.
Candidates should be aware that Artera currently maintains a policy requiring all employees (Resident, Mobile and Remote) to be fully vaccinated. New employees should be fully vaccinated by their start date. Artera is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.
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