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 RoleWe'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
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)
We know that great candidates don’t always check every box. If you’re excited about this role, we strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every listed qualification.
The products we’re building have meaningful social impact, and we believe that diverse experiences and viewpoints make that work stronger. We’re committed to building an inclusive team and would love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong foundation in programming and software design principles
- Experience building well-scoped, performant modern web applications
- Production experience with React or Next.js
- Experience with at least one of Go, Python, or JavaScript
- Ability to work across the full stack
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams
- Experience with AI tools, prompt engineering, or AI integration in development workflows
- Search infrastructure experience, such as Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with message brokers, such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS
- Database optimization experience, such as MariaDB or similar relational databases
- Familiarity with modern frontend tooling, such as Vite
- Background in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
What We Do
Ladders is a fast growing internet company. We’re building the best data driven web and mobile web products to connect job seekers and employers. Our products help people ‘Manage, Market and Move-up’ in their careers, and helps employers quickly find their next reliable hire. Come join us, and build meaningful products used by millions of people!
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