About the job
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
About Ladder
At Ladder, we identified a significant issue in the life insurance sector: the lengthy application process, the excessive paperwork, and the numerous in-person meetings with agents. Motivated by personal loss, our CEO, Jamie, set out to simplify the process of obtaining essential coverage for families. We innovated real-time underwriting using AI, transforming the months-long life insurance application into a matter of minutes. Our user-friendly digital experience ensures instant decisions and has garnered exceptional user reviews, with over $74 billion in coverage issued.
About the Role
We are in search of a Senior Software Engineer who will enhance developer productivity within Ladder's engineering team. You will take charge of modernizing our CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer tools, while also contributing to the robustness of our cloud infrastructure and data platform.
The ideal candidate will possess a proven track record in software engineering, demonstrate leadership qualities, and have a thorough understanding of engineering infrastructure. This position is remote, available in any of the 22 states where Ladder is hiring: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, KS, MA, MD, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI. Please note that Ladder is not sponsoring or transferring OPT or H1-B visas at this time.
How You’ll Make a Difference
As a senior engineer in our team, your responsibilities will extend beyond coding; you will influence our platform strategy. Your contributions will include:
- Enhancing developer velocity across the engineering organization by measuring and optimizing the developer workflow, which encompasses build times, test parallelization, deployment speeds, and daily tooling.
- Shaping the architecture of Ladder’s production infrastructure by evaluating design trade-offs and making impactful technical decisions, such as transitioning from custom monitoring tools to native cloud provider integrations or redefining data pipeline rebuild processes in response to upstream logic changes. You will have the insight to see the holistic view across systems and determine where to allocate engineering resources effectively.
- Engaging in incident response for infrastructure issues, leading retrospectives, and ensuring actionable follow-through on resolutions.

