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
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
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)
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

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.