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title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Ladders'
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# Senior Software Engineer at Ladders

- **Company:** Ladders
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $200k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** 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)

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.

## About Ladders

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ladders is a premium job platform that connects highly experienced professionals with $100K+ job opportunities using data-driven tools and curated listings.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/self-funded; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Online job search, recruitment technology, career services
- Target customers: B2C – experienced professionals earning $100K–$500K+; B2B – employers and recruiters seeking qualified senior talent
- Mission or purpose: “To bring qualified professionals and hiring teams together fast” ([theladders.com/about-us](https://www.theladders.com/about-us))

## Products & Services
- **Job Search Platform**: Curated database of 1M+ jobs all paying $100K+ with salary ranges, company insights, and application tracking. (B2C web platform)
- **Apply4Me**: A premium service where Ladders experts handle job applications on behalf of members, saving an average of 18 minutes per application. (Service)
- **Resume Services**: ATS-friendly resume writing and optimization tools to help candidates land interviews. (Service)
- **Browser Extension**: A magic extension that automates applications on LinkedIn and 208,888 corporate career sites. (Browser add-on)
- **Career Advice & News**: 5–7 new articles per week covering job search research, industry trends, and professional development. (Content)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $30M (as of latest available data); 10M+ community members
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed; 22,000+ employers actively use the platform
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 41 employees (+9.4% YoY); active job postings increased by 65.2% quarterly; workforce distributed across 9 countries

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus on $100K+ jobs**: Ladders exclusively targets the high-end job market (25% of all jobs, ~50% of US & Canada income), reducing noise for senior professionals.
- **Data-driven tools**: Apply4Me, salary transparency, and applicant qualification insights differentiate from general job boards.
- **Vetted listings**: All postings are screened for spam and include salary estimates, saving time for both job seekers and recruiters.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the Apply4Me automation and AI-powered matching capabilities to further reduce time-to-application for members.
- Growing the employer base and deepening data analytics to provide better insights on compensation and hiring trends.
- Continuing to publish daily career advice to maintain engagement and thought leadership in the premium job space.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 3.7/5 on Glassdoor (70% recommend to a friend); employees praise work-life balance (3.9) and culture (3.8). The company is “deeply technology-driven” with about half the workforce in engineering, product, or design roles.
- **Work policy**: Offers hybrid and remote opportunities; multiple offices in New York City with a distributed team across 9 countries.
- **Engineering focus**: Technical team comprises 14 of 41 employees; roles include Software Engineer (average $159,565/yr), Technical Lead, and VP of Engineering.
- **Perks**: Emphasis on building products that have real impact on users’ careers; collaborative environment with a flat hierarchy.

## Sources
1. [theladders.com/about-us](https://www.theladders.com/about-us)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ladders](https://linkedin.com/company/ladders)
3. [glassdoor.com/Reviews/Ladders-Reviews-E39451.htm](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Ladders-Reviews-E39451.htm)
4. [theladders.com](https://www.theladders.com/)
5. [jobs.lever.co/ladders](https://jobs.lever.co/ladders)

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