Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

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 we