About the job
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform
About Ladder
Ladder is revolutionizing the life insurance industry by eliminating unnecessary delays, paperwork, and in-person meetings. Founded by Jamie, who experienced a personal loss at a young age, our mission is to simplify access to life insurance so families can secure their futures. By harnessing the power of real-time underwriting and AI technology, we have transformed the months-long application process into a matter of minutes, garnering over $74 billion in coverage provided. Our user-friendly digital experience is celebrated by clients, as reflected in our glowing Trustpilot and Google reviews.
About the Role
We are seeking a dynamic Senior Staff Software Engineer with extensive experience in building scalable ETL pipelines. You will tackle complex backend and data plumbing issues that connect our transactional systems (Datomic) with analytical and streaming infrastructures (BigQuery, Kafka, Flink, DBT). If you thrive on solving intricate architectural challenges using immutable data structures and functional programming, we want you on our team!

