Platform Architect, Arbital Health
$220-260k
+ ISO stock options
Accelerating healthcare to value-based care
Job no longer available
Accelerating healthcare to value-based care
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$220-260k
+ ISO stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To become the neutral, third-party utility for the design, measurement, and adjudication of outcome-based contracts in U.S. healthcare.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years building and shipping production software, with a generalist, full-stack range
- A demonstrated track record of owning architecture across multiple layers of a system, not just within a single component
- Deep foundation in back-end and service development, plus enough front-end depth (modern frameworks) to lead and contribute there
- Strong distributed systems and event-driven architecture experience (e.g., Kafka or comparable)
- Experience architecting data pipelines, ideally on cloud data platforms; familiarity with Databricks/Spark is a plus
- Security and observability are treated as design fundamentals, not bolt-ons
- Excellent written communication — the ability to turn complexity into documentation that teams can act on
- A history of mentoring engineers and driving cross-team initiatives end-to-end through influence rather than authority
- A pragmatic, execution-grounded approach to architecture
- Experience with healthcare or other regulated data environments (HIPAA, PHI)
- Domain knowledge in value-based care, payer, actuarial, or claims data
What the job involves
- As a platform architect, you'll be the senior individual contributor responsible for the platform's end-to-end coherence and cohesiveness
- This is a hands-on technical authority role, not a management role: you'll lead through architecture, code, and documentation, and influence rather than through direct reports
- Over time, we expect this person to become the technical anchor of a platform team
- Unified platform architecture. You'll define the architectural patterns and shared foundations that enable the front end, back end, data pipelines, and AI agent layers to evolve together rather than diverge
- Faster, safer delivery. Clear standards and reusable enablers reduce rework, shorten the path from idea to production, and make compliance and security the default
- Connective tissue for financial interoperability. Arbital's core thesis is to connect fragmented healthcare data infrastructure to the financial decisions that VBC organizations need to make in a timely manner. Sound cross-layer architecture is what makes that promise real and reliable at scale
- Raising the bar. You'll lift the architectural thinking of strong application, data, and AI engineers across the org, seeding the discipline that a future platform team will be built around
- Own the end-to-end architecture vision across the front end, back end, data pipelines, and AI agent harness, and keep the layers coherent as they grow
- Establish patterns, standards, and shared enablers (libraries, services, conventions) that break down silos and enable teams to build consistently
- Work hands-on alongside the front-end and back-end teams, contributing code, reviews, and design leadership
- Drive sound distributed systems and event-driven design where it fits, with reliability, observability, and security treated as first-class concerns
- Architect the AI agent harness to interact with PHI and other sensitive data in a governed, auditable, HIPAA-compliant manner
- Partner with data engineers, data scientists, and actuaries on our AWS and Databricks stack to align data pipeline architecture with the analytics and decision-support layers above it
- Work with Product Management to ensure that PRDs have sufficient detail to be translated into technical designs
- Produce clear, actionable architecture documentation that teams can confidently build from
- Rapidly understand existing codebases, surface technical debt, and chart pragmatic paths to pay it down
- Mentor engineers and data engineers toward stronger architectural thinking, building the foundation for a future platform team
Our take
The existing healthcare system struggles with ensuring that all stakeholders - including life science companies, payers, providers, and employers - are motivated to prioritize patient outcomes and value-based care.
Recognizing this misalignment is Arbital Health, which leverages technology to design and measure outcome-based contracts, acting as an impartial entity to assess whether agreed-upon outcomes are fulfilled. The company's product offerings include value assessments for health vendors, value analysis for payers, and actuarial advisory services.
Arbital Health has secured significant funding, the latest of which supports the expansion of its payer and provider facing capabilities, growth of its market-leading actuarial team, and many more ventures. It has also launched Merlin AI, a value-based care assistant that helps providers, payers, and other risk bearing organizations to work with complex contracts more easily.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2025
$31m
SERIES B
Jan 2024
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41m
Company benefits
- Flexible hybrid work
- Generous medical, dental & vision
- 4% retirement match
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO including a winter closure
Company HQ
Santa Rosa, CA
Leadership
Brian M. Overstreet
(President & CEO, Co-founder)Currently an Advisor at Arietta.ai and Healthy Ventures. Previously co-founded Advera Health Analytics and Sagient Research where they served as the President and CEO.
Travis May
(Chairman & Co-founder)CEO of Shaper Capital, Chairman at InsightNexus, and Board Member at Datavant. Former CEO of Datavant and LiveRamp.
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