<aside> 🛠 We're looking for a driven, entrepreneurial engineer to join our team and help build the professional platform for the next generation. Apply here!
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Ladder is a professional community platform democratizing access to career growth for the next generation. We’re building the best place for rising professionals to level up their careers — with the core value of being community-first instead of network-first.
We're backed by some of the best consumer investors in the world, including Forerunner Ventures, Pear VC, 122WEST, Alexis Ohanian (Founder of Reddit, Initialized Capital, 776 Fund), Tony Xu (CEO of DoorDash), Josh Elman (Greylock, VP of Product at Robinhood), Kevin Weil (SVP of Product at Twitter, Facebook), Elizabeth Weil (a16z, Scribble Ventures), Josh Buckley (CEO of Product Hunt, Mino Games), Harry Stebbings (20VC), Pedram Keyani (Director of Eng at Uber, Facebook, Google), and Matthew Dellavedova (NBA Player).
As our Founding Engineer, you'll work directly with the founders to build out our engineering team. You'll have complete ownership over the features you build, from ideation and design to development and production. We work in a product-focused environment, where engineers are their own PMs and everyone cares deeply about the end-user.
We're constantly pushing high-demand features, and you'll be able to define and implement a variety of products: some ideas on our roadmap include an AI super-connector that will match people for 1:1 coffee chats, a personalized home feed, a reward system to incentivize user contribution and participation, and tools to help users and companies meaningfully connect with each other.
We're in hyper-growth mode and we move quickly; you'll be joining right at an inflection point in our growth. You'll be a part of a startup right at the tipping point where efficiency starts to matter — in 2 months after launching the platform, we have tens of thousands of users and several corporate sponsors, which brings exciting and unique technical challenges surrounding efficiency and optimization.
Note: if you're a student and interested in an internship, check out our Software Engineering Internship!