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Senior Software Engineer

Ladders
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 May 2026

About the role

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

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Company

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