Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ladders and build highly effective AI products for job search, focusing on AI-driven solutions to enhance user interview opportunities. We offer innovative products such as AI-generated resumes, one-click resume customization, and personalized cover letters. You will design and deliver scalable, high-performance systems, solve complex problems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate possesses a problem-solving mindset, full-stack proficiency, and a passion for AI integration. We value transparency, customer obsession, and simplicity in our work environment. Work remotely and contribute to impactful projects that shape the careers of millions.

Requirements

• Problem-Solving Mindset: An innate ability to tackle complexity with intelligence and curiosity
• Full-Stack Proficiency: Expertise in front-end and/or back-end technologies
• Speed Matters: Experience in delivering fast, efficient solutions is highly valued
• Adaptability: Eagerness to learn and work with new tools, languages, and paradigms
• AI Enthusiast: Passion for integrating AI into development workflows to simplify and enhance solutions
• Experience at Scale: You’ve architected solutions for companies operating at significant scale
• Customer Focus: Empathy for end users and an unwavering commitment to improving their experience

Responsibilities

• Design & Deliver: Build scalable, high-performance front-end and back-end systems for fast and seamless web experiences
• Solve Complex Problems: Break down intricate challenges into actionable solutions, iterating quickly to address broad goals
• Embrace AI: Identify opportunities to embed AI into processes, optimizing efficiency and user experience
• Collaborate & Lead: Partner cross-functionally with design, product, and business teams. Lead and mentor engineers to foster growth and shared success
• Craft Excellence: Promote and practice clean code, robust testing, thorough documentation, and performance optimization
• Drive Innovation: Balance technical debt with long-term product and business goals. Your ideas today could shape our best-selling products tomorrow

Preferred Qualifications

• Any modern, typed language: Python (3.10+), Golang, TypeScript, Rust
• MySQL/MariaDB, OpenSearch (or ElasticSearch), Redshift
• LLMs, vector search, embeddings, similarity search
• Terraform or Pulumi
• AWS, K8s
• Jenkins
• Focus on thought through but simple and maintainable solutions addressing actual problems
• Designing systems with ease of repeatable testing and local-first development

Benefits

• Work remotely from anywhere while contributing to impactful projects that shape the careers of millions
• Competitive compensation