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Brief #40428Updated 24 JUN 2026NEW YORK, NYLeverFINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
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Senior Software Engineer

TheLadders.com, Inc. provides online job search resources and contents. The Company offers access to senior-level jobs in marketing and media, healthcare, technology, consumer goods, industrial, and service industries.…

Location
New York, NY
Company size
2–10
Posted
3w ago
Via
Lever
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Senior Software Engineer · Ladders

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Job title
Senior Software Engineer
Job location
New York, NY
Job listing URL
https://jobs.lever.co/ladders/d6ea9c1d-f73b-4596-919e-3c65073f0a3d
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 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
What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation: base salary $200,000 ~ $220,000 + stock options

  • Home office setup stipend

  • Gym membership reimbursement

  • Commuter benefits program

  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision

  • 401(k) retirement plan

  • Health Savings Account (HSA), Health Care FSA (HCFSA), and Dependent Care FSA (DCFSA)

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Ladders headquarters

New York, NY

Company size

2–10 employees

Founded

2003

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