Senior Software Engineer (AI-Forward)

Recademics | Sr. Software Engineer (AI-Forward)
Remote or Hybrid

• Have you made decisions with incomplete information that you were later held accountable for?
• Have you figured out how to 10x your output without 10x the hours?
• Do you prefer a small, demanding team where commitment and execution matter most?

Read those three questions again. If your answer is yes, keep reading. You are the type of person we'd like to talk to.

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Recademics helps outdoor enthusiasts get certified and stay safe during their outdoor adventures (boating, hunting, offroading, snowmobiling, and more).

We do this by working with state agencies to deliver education that meets their technical and regulatory requirements, ensuring citizens understand the law and how to stay safe.

In our first year of operation, we launched nearly 30 state-approved online courses that helped 10s of thousands of outdoor enthusiasts get their certification. And..we’re just getting started.

Fundamentally, our mission is simple and ambitious: Build the best learning experience possible to protect and save lives.

For decades, regulated education and compliance training has been dominated by stagnation, leading to boring content and frustrating experiences because people just don’t want to engage with the experience. This is dangerous and must change. We believe there is a better way.

The future we are creating is built upon state-of-the-art educational experiences. This means engaging, adaptive, and dynamic content. This means easy-to-use, easy-to-navigate digital experiences. This means leveraging emerging technologies (like AI, modern software architecture, and modern pedagogical tools and practices) to ensure every one of our learners engages with the most important information. This can (literally) be the difference between life and death.

We care deeply about:

• Building learning experiences that are engaging, adaptive, and actually effective
• Using AI responsibly to improve how content is created, delivered, and personalized
• Proving that innovation can coexist with compliance and regulatory rigor

If you’re excited about building products at the intersection of education, AI, and real-world impact, you’ll feel at home here.

Position Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer at Recademics, you will play a critical role in building, scaling, and modernizing our education platforms used by tens of thousands of learners nationwide. You’ll work across the full stack: Node.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, while helping push our engineering organization to the forefront of AI-assisted and agentic software development.

We’re looking for a senior-level engineer who is not only strong in fundamentals, but who actively leverages tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and agent-based workflows to move faster, reduce toil, and modernize legacy systems. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both shipping product and rethinking how software gets built in an AI-native era.

You’ll collaborate with a fully remote, distributed team across time zones and will be trusted to operate with high autonomy and ownership.

Key Responsibilities

· Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications using Node.js (backend) and React (frontend)

· Lead development of scalable, well-structured APIs, with GraphQL as a primary interface layer

· Actively use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, agent-based IDE workflows) to accelerate development, refactoring, and debugging

· Retrofit and modernize existing/legacy applications to work effectively with AI-assisted and agentic development patterns (e.g., improving modularity, test coverage, and architectural boundaries so AI tools can reason over the codebase)

· Collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver clean, intuitive user experiences

· Participate in architectural discussions with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and velocity

· Own features end-to-end: technical design, implementation, testing, and iteration

· Communicate clearly and asynchronously with teammates across time zones

· Contribute to internal standards and best practices around AI-augmented engineering workflows

What We’re Looking For

· Mission-driven and excited about improving access to high-quality education

· Strong communicator who thrives in a remote-first, async-friendly environment

· Comfortable working autonomously and proposing alternative solutions when tradeoffs arise

· Passionate about continuous learning, especially as AI reshapes software development

· 4+ years of professional experience as a full-stack developer, with senior-level ownership expectations.

Strong expertise in:

JavaScript (ES6+)

TypeScript (strongly typed, production-grade code required)

Node.js

React

HTML / CSS

Modern front-end patterns and tooling

Experience designing and maintaining APIs (GraphQL strongly preferred)

Experience working in monorepo and microservice architectures

Hands-on AWS experience, including building, deploying, and operating services

Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform and/or AWS CDK)

Experience with Docker and Redis in production environments

Hands-on experience using AI coding tools in production, such as:

• Claude Code or similar LLM-driven coding environments
• Copilot, Cursor, or agent-based IDE workflows

Strong Preference / Bonus Points

Experience retrofitting or refactoring legacy codebases to better support:

AI-assisted development

Improved testability, modularity, and reasoning boundaries

Understanding of agentic programming concepts (task decomposition, tool-calling agents, human-in-the-loop workflows)

Experience with AWS-hosted systems

Experience with Redis or other caching layers

Startup or scale-up experience where speed and ownership matter

Prior leadership of technical initiatives in a remote-first organization

Familiarity with LMS or online education platforms (Canvas, Blackboard, custom LMSs)

Exposure to Lean principles and iterative delivery

Love for the outdoors when you're not coding!

Contract-to-Hire Structure

This role is contract-to-hire by design. We believe this is the best arrangement for both sides.

Rather than committing long-term before working together, we prefer a structured trial period where everyone gets real signal:

· You get to experience how Recademics operates day-to-day; our codebase, pace, product decisions, and remote culture.

· We get to see how you think, ship, collaborate, and apply senior-level judgment

We find many strong engineers prefer this model because it replaces artificial interviews with real work, real impact, and real autonomy. We intend to convert successful contracts into long-term roles.

Compensation

Salary Range: $150,000 – $190,000 (based on experience)

Fully remote, flexible work environment with meaningful ownership over systems used at scale.

To Apply:

Email Resume / CV to

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