Full-Time
Software Engineer
Posted on 10/31/2025
Ladders
11-50 employees
Online job board for high-paying roles
No salary listed
Philadelphia, PA, USA + 1 more
More locations: New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
 Software Engineering (1) |
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- 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.
- 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.
- Ideal candidate should have experience with 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
Ladders operates an online job search platform that specializes in $100K+ roles, connecting experienced professionals with executive and senior-level opportunities from top companies. Its product works on a freemium model: users create a free account to access a limited set of listings and career resources, while a paid membership unlocks full job postings, resume critiques, and insights that show how applicants compare to others. What sets Ladders apart is its tight focus on high-earning professionals and a curated, employer-backed job list, plus premium tools that support career development. The goal is to help experienced professionals land high-paying roles while giving employers access to a targeted pool of top talent.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$7.3M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2003
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- 68% job seekers demand remote jobs, boosting Ladders' filter feature.
- Layoff discounts attract laid-off executives to premium memberships.
- Tracks application status with dashboard notifications for users.
What critics are saying
- Declining Chrome extension ratings cause 60-80% user abandonment in 6-12 months.
- PitchMeAI steals market with superior AI outreach to hiring managers.
- LinkedIn AI matching obsoletes manual Apply4Me, triggering exodus in 18-24 months.
What makes Ladders unique
- Targets exclusively $100K+ executive jobs for senior professionals.
- Apply4Me service automates applications using resumes and 18 questions.
- Chrome and Edge extensions enable one-click job applications across sites.
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Benefits
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -9%1 year growth
↓ -9%2 year growth
↓ -9%“Job seekers have become more sophisticated and particular about the companies that they want to work for,” said Dave Fisch, CEO of Ladders. “We created our filter feature to show them that we are listening and taking action to support them and streamline their job search process.”. Despite many companies mandating a return to office for employees, professional job seekers are still demanding schedule flexibility and work-from-home opportunities. According to data fromLadders, Inc., the career platform efficiently bringing together qualified professionals and hiring teams, 68 percent of job seekers applied for remote only jobs in August 2022, a 31 percent increase from January 2021
While several leading companies like Apple, Citigroup, Netflix and Salesforce are expanding healthcare benefits in response to the Roe v. Wade ruling, a new study conducted by Ladders finds that 75 percent of job seekers say health benefits at their current employer have not been and/or will not be altered following the decision. In fact, 73 percent say their company will not offer travel expense reimbursement for employees seeking abortion access, but live in states where the procedures are no longer legal. Additionally, 67 percent say their company will not offer paid time off to access abortion care. Ladders, the career platform efficiently bringing together qualified professionals and hiring teams, surveyed more than 370 job seekers in the 100K+ job market to learn more about women in the workforce and the current efforts employers are taking to support employees following the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade
Ladders, Inc., the career platform efficiently bringing together qualified professionals and hiring teams, today announced it is offering a discounted Premium membership to employers who have been forced to conduct layoffs amidst the looming economic downturn. The goal is to help impacted professionals quickly find their next high-quality job opportunity. “Let’s face it, it’s been a hell of a year for employers and employees alike,” said Dave Fisch, CEO of Ladders. “Our goal has always been to be the connective tissue between professionals and hiring teams, and we want to provide our services free-of-cost to the thousands of workers impacted by the recent spate of layoffs and rescinded job offers.”
Since 2017, Nucamp has provided high-quality, affordable coding bootcamps, making software development education accessible to everyone. Nucamp graduates have access to 1:1 career coaching, a career development course, and nationwide job boards through Nucamp’s Career Services Program. In keeping with Nucamp’s commitment to the success of each student, the new Job Hunting Bootcamp takes the preparation for a job search to the next level. With the Job Hunting Bootcamp, Nucamp is opening enrollment to anyone seeking extra help in securing their first coding job, and any mid-level developers who may not have gone through a technical interview in a long time. All are welcome: Nucamp or other coding bootcamp graduates, computer science grads, self-taught developers, and experienced software engineers. The bootcamp is technology agnostic, so the lessons on preparing for coding tests, whiteboard design sessions, and algorithm interviews are relevant regardless of a student’s programming language and framework knowledge
As an example, Ladders created the Premium service Apply4Me to rid professionals of the hoop-jumping that is job application forms.