Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ladder's engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer and help revolutionize the life insurance industry. Working remotely from one of 22 eligible states, you'll build and maintain critical cloud infrastructure and services. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, improve engineering productivity, and leverage your expertise in software engineering and infrastructure. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving skills and experience with public cloud providers. Ladder offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development in one or more programming languages and with data structures/algorithms
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (Preferably GCP) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. GKE, BigQuery, VertexAI)
• Understanding of standard Observability tools such as Grafana, DataDog, Sentry
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Solve a variety of technical challenges and drive the development of software to democratize the Life Insurance industry
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, developer tooling and data & monitoring systems used by other teams
• Conceive and build tools to improve engineering productivity
• Collaborate closely with team members and product managers
• Quickly build ownership over major parts of our codebase
• Explore data to provide insights into the Ladder product and business
• Continually improve code quality, performance and reliability
• Implement security best practices

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Clojure, JVM, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, BigQuery, Tableau, and Apache Beam

Benefits

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible paid time off
• Stock options
• A rewarding 401k match program
• Commuter benefits
• A stocked, beautiful new office
• Paid parental leave
• Work-from-home flexibility and support
• Fun company-wide events