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Senior Software Engineer

Ladders
📍 New York, NY 📅 Posted May 6, 2026
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About this role

What You’ll Do

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Design and build AI-powered products and features that deliver meaningful user impact

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Build and maintain scalable backend services and user-facing applications

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Collaborate closely with product and design team, and other engineering teams to deliver high-impact features

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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

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6+ years of professional software engineering experience

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Strong foundation in programming and software design principles

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Proven experience building well-scoped, performant modern web applications

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Production experience with React or Next.js and at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, or JavaScript

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Comfort navigating the full stack and pulling in what's needed to ship

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Strong ownership mindset and ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams

Nice to Have

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Experience working with AI tools, prompt engineering, or integrating AI into development workflows

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Search infrastructure experience (Elasticsearch or similar)

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Familiarity with message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS)

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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

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Consistently delivers product features with high quality and strong attention to detail

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Uses AI-assisted development fluently, producing clean and maintainable code at higher velocity

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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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