Software Engineering

Foundation

$90K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments
  • Product-minded with a focus on customer outcomes
  • Ability to write clear and maintainable code with sensible abstractions
  • Self-directed and accountable with strong goal management
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguous problems and fast iterations
  • Pragmatic approach to integrating AI into workflows
  • Strong collaborative communication skills across disciplines
  • Mindset focused on quality and reliability in systems

Responsibilities

  • Ship impactful products that enhance builder operations and buyer experiences
  • Own high-impact problems from conception to deployment
  • Develop understandable, extensible, and operable software systems
  • Integrate AI thoughtfully to streamline user workflows
  • Engage closely with customers to gather insights and feedback
  • Elevate code quality, performance, and developer experience through improvements

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunity to significantly impact a traditional industry
  • Focus on real-world applications and user empathy
  • Potential for rapid career growth in a fast-moving tech landscape
  • Chance to work closely with cross-functional teams including design and product management
Full Job Description
The Job

You'll help us build the most trusted, modern customer experience platform in homebuilding - and drag the everyday workflows of a huge, traditional industry into the AI era (with taste, pragmatism, and real-world empathy).

This role sits close to product and customers. You'll ship across the stack, partner with design and go-to-market, and take ownership of meaningful slices of the platform - from early discovery to production hardening. We're building for real businesses, real revenue, and real users who don't have time for fragile tools.

What you'll do (examples, not a checklist):
  • Ship product that matters. Build features that improve how builders operate and how buyers experience the home buying journey - fast feedback, frequent releases, and measurable outcomes.
  • Own problems end-to-end. Take ambiguous, high-impact problems from "what should we do?" to "it's live, monitored, and loved."
  • Build calm, composable systems. Create software that's easy to understand, extend, and operate - the kind of codebase that makes other engineers better.
  • Bring AI into real workflows. Use AI where it genuinely helps users (and avoid it where it doesn't), turning enterprise "forms and friction" into guided, intelligent experiences.
  • Work close to customers. Learn how builders think, observe where their tools break down, and build solutions that feel obvious in hindsight.
  • Raise the bar. Improve quality, performance, reliability, and developer experience through thoughtful refactors, better primitives, and good defaults.


The Requirements

We care about craft, curiosity, and follow-through. We're looking for builders - the kind of engineers who ship, learn, and iterate, with a strong sense of ownership and a bias toward clarity.

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, shipping production software that real users rely on.
  • Product-minded builder. You care about the "why," not just the "what," and you optimize for customer outcomes over internal elegance.
  • Strong fundamentals + good taste. You write clear, maintainable code, choose sensible abstractions, and know when to keep it simple.
  • Self-directed and accountable. You can take a goal and run with it - breaking it down, communicating tradeoffs, and delivering without constant oversight.
  • Comfort with ambiguity. You enjoy the early-days energy: vague problems, fast iteration, and learning by building.
  • Pragmatic about AI. You're excited about what's possible, thoughtful about what's safe and useful, and eager to apply AI in ways that actually improve workflows.
  • Collaborative communicator. You work well with designers, PMs, and non-engineers - you can explain, listen, and align.
  • Quality and reliability mindset. You test appropriately, you care about observability, and you leave systems better than you found them.
Nice-to-haves (not required)
  • Experience in SaaS, workflow products, marketplaces, or enterprise-facing systems
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems without breaking customers
  • Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, permissions/security, and data modeling
  • A track record of building internal tools that make teams dramatically more effective

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