Ladders

Senior Software Engineer

Ladders  •  New York City, NY (Onsite)  •  7 days ago
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Job Description

What You’ll Do

    • Design and build AI-powered products and features that deliver meaningful user impact

    • Build and maintain scalable backend services and user-facing applications

    • Collaborate closely with product and design team, and other engineering teams to deliver high-impact features

    • Make structural technical decisions and clearly articulate trade-offs when solving complex problems

    • Take ownership of a product area, service, or technical domain and drive it forward
    • Continuously improve system performance, reliability, and developer experience

What We’re Looking For

    • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience

    • Strong foundation in programming and software design principles

    • Proven experience building well-scoped, performant modern web applications

    • Production experience with React or Next.js and at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, or JavaScript

    • Comfort navigating the full stack and pulling in what's needed to ship

    • Strong ownership mindset and ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams

    • Nice to Have
      • Experience working with AI tools, prompt engineering, or integrating AI into development workflows

      • Search infrastructure experience (Elasticsearch or similar)

      • Familiarity with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS)

      • Database optimization experience (e.g., MariaDB or similar relational databases)

      • Experience with modern frontend tooling (e.g., Vite)
      • Background in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

What Success Looks Like

    • Consistently delivers product features with high quality and strong attention to detail

    • Uses AI-assisted development fluently, producing clean and maintainable code at higher velocity

    • Builds strong partnerships with engineers, product and design, contributing to team and organizational growth

    • Proactively surfaces problems and drives them to resolution
    • Makes the codebase, the system, and the team around you measurably better over time
Ladders

About Ladders

We lead the leaders. Ladder’s community of 10 mm leading professionals come to us to be inspired, grow in their careers, and get ahead in their professional lives. We focus on the $100K+ job market, representing 25% of all jobs and about 50% of income in the US & Canada. We build data-driven tools, marketplaces, news and entertainment products for our growing audience, and the companies, recruiters, and advertisers that want to reach them.

We work best with people who enjoy using their talents, commitment and hard work to achieve great successes for millions of real life users through products that impact their careers. We are deeply technology-driven -- about half the company are engineers, technical product people or product designers -- but we never build technology for technology’s sake. We’re always trying to connect our efforts to the good it can do in people’s lives.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
New York
Year Founded
2003
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