Senior Software Engineer

ApprentiScope is a platform that supports Registered Apprenticeship programs, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take a high-ownership role in building their future. The role involves end-to-end ownership of the software stack, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring production reliability while collaborating closely with the CEO and leadership team.

Responsibilities:

• Take end-to-end ownership of our entire stack , including frontend, backend, infrastructure, CI/CD, QA, reliability and integrations
• Ship customer-facing features from spec to production , balancing speed with the reliability our customers run their programs on
• Drive continuous improvement and quality , triaging and resolving incoming bug reports, improving site speed and responsiveness, and steadily raising the quality bar across the product
• Build new product surfaces , from field-friendly data capture to AI-driven program intelligence
• Partner directly with the CEO and customers to translate compliance and workforce needs into working software
• Make architectural decisions in collaboration with our CEO that shape the next phase of the product — what to build, what to refactor, what to buy
• Establish the engineering practices, standards, and tooling that a growing team will build on
• Own build-vs-buy and tech-debt tradeoffs — keep the system simple enough to move fast and solid enough to scale
• Be the technical voice in product, customer onboarding and roadmapping
• Own production reliability , monitoring, and incident response (Sentry, Better Stack)
• Maintain and advance our security and compliance posture , including SOC 2 (Snyk, vulnerability scanning, audit logging)
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across serverless functions and data access
• Keep the platform our customers depend on just working — you're the person ultimately responsible for that

Requirements:

• 7+ years building and shipping production software, with significant time as a senior or lead engineer at an early-stage or small company
• Deep expertise in TypeScript / Node.js across the full stack
• Hands-on experience with cloud and serverless architectures — GCP ideal, but AWS or equivalent translates well
• Experience designing data models and working with NoSQL databases
• A track record of owning systems end-to-end — you've been the person responsible for a production codebase, not one contributor among many
• Experience building third-party integrations and APIs
• Sound, independent judgment on architecture and on the tradeoff between quality and speed
• Experience leveraging AI tools (Claude Code/Cursor/Codex) in the software development process
• Experience building AI/LLM-powered product features
• Background in workforce, edtech, govtech, or other compliance-heavy B2B domains