What's more exciting than working for a venture backed startup? How about working with 2 to 4 venture backed startups every year?
Join APrime Technology and experience the thrill of building mission-critical systems for both early startups going from 0 to 1 and high-growth startups who’ve found product market fit and are gearing up for enterprise scale. From AI-first companies revolutionizing their industries to B2B SaaS platforms serving Fortune 500 enterprises, every quarter at APrime Technology offers a new opportunity.
About APrime TechnologyAPrime is a boutique, engineering-led technology consultancy built by and for experienced technologists. We specialize in designing domain-driven software solutions that solve the most complex, high-stakes problems facing our clients—typically fast-moving disruptors in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, fintech, edtech, govtech, enterprise SaaS, and AI/ML-first products. Our projects live at the intersection of distributed cloud systems, big data, applied AI/ML, thoughtful software design, and first class customer service. We’ve been providing forward deployed engineering as a service to venture backed startups for over 5 years.
The Role
We’re seeking driven, independent engineers who love hard problems and modern technology. You’ll collaborate with top-tier client teams to design scalable, secure infrastructure, elevate engineering practices, and ship code that matters. If you’re excited by the idea of solving technical challenges that redefine industries, let’s talk.
What You’ll Do
- Lead or contribute to high-impact platform initiatives that improve developer experience, reliability, and scalability.
- Architect and implement robust infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, networking, and CI/CD.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code in modern languages.
- Collaborate with APrime colleagues and client teams to define requirements, align on timelines, and deliver solutions with minimal oversight.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of professional experience in a full-time Software Engineering, SRE, DevOps / Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering role
- 3+ years of hands-on development experience in modern object-oriented languages (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript), with a focus on clean code and strong documentation
- Significant experience managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and how they behave at scale
- Hands-on Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK)
- Strong experience with containerization and orchestration, ex. Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or self-managed), ECS, or Fargate
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD)
- Strong verbal communication skills in English are required. This is a client-facing role, and candidates must be able to communicate technical concepts clearly and fluently with both internal and external stakeholders.
- A valid LinkedIn profile is required to be considered. This helps us verify that applicants are legitimate and professional. We do not require use of LinkedIn after hire.
Nice to Have:
- Experience working with Engineering teams to improve application and platform observability, using tools like DataDog, NewRelic
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure in regulated environments (e.g., healthcare, finance, or other compliance-driven domains)
- Exposure to microservices architecture and related tools or concepts such as gRPC, Protobuf, distributed tracing, or service mesh technologies
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive base salary of 180k, and up to 90k bonus.
- Generous incentive and bonus plans, including individual and company performance bonuses, client and candidate referral incentives and “billable hour” bonuses that can total up to 50% of base pay
- Access to equity in APrime’s portfolio of startup client companies via a special purpose vehicle.
- 401k offering with employer match of 100% for contributions up to 6% of annual base salary
- Time Off and Leave:
- Unlimited Paid Vacation and Sick Days, subject to company guidelines, and 12 paid company holidays
- Paid and unpaid parental leave benefits
- Health Insurance benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision and Short Term Disability
- APrime offers several top-tier PPO health plan options provided by United Healthcare, and currently covers the equivalent of 90% of employee and dependent premiums of the base offering
- APrime offers Dental and Vision coverage through Beam, and covers 90% of employee and dependents’ premiums
- APrime fully covers Short Term Disability premiums
Base Compensation for our Senior Software Engineer 2 position is $180,000. Our compensation package also includes generous incentive compensation opportunities in the form of a discretionary annual bonus, referral commission, and equity incentives that can total up to 50% over base pay.
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