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: 1mo ago
Comp band: $200K

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Job listing · Updated 02 SEP 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Ladders· New York, NYView company profile

Job title: Senior Software Engineer
Job location: New York, NY
Job listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/ladders/69477365-5edd-48b6-a2d5-c36161847fe4
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)