Senior Software Engineer

About this role

## About Us

For 20 years, Ladders has connected ambitious professionals with $100K+ opportunities, now serving over 8 million members. We're a profitable, small, collaborative, venture-backed team in NYC that moves fast, ships real products, and applies AI in ways that genuinely help people land better careers.

## The Role

We're looking for a thoughtful Senior Full-Stack Engineer(6+ years experience) who thrives owning problems end-to-end. You'll design and build AI-powered features that reach millions of job seekers, make pragmatic architectural decisions, and balance speed with long-term quality. This is not a backlog-ticket role, we want someone who takes a concept all the way to production, not just executes what's handed to them.

This is a NY based role with regular in-office presence required (hybrid schedule).

### 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 enginee...