Staff Software Engineer, Ladder
$161.5-210k
+Equity (Stock options)
More information about location
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Flexible life insurance provider
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Flexible life insurance provider
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$161.5-210k
+Equity (Stock options)
More information about location
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To combine the power of innovative technology with world-class financial and insurance expertise to make it easy for anyone to access life insurance.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings demonstrated experience in software engineering, leadership maturity and a deep understanding of engineering infrastructure
- 5+ years of software development in one or more programming languages and with data structures/algorithms
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (Preferably GCP) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. GKE, BigQuery, VertexAI)
- Understanding of standard Observability tools such as Grafana, DataDog, Sentry
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality code in a fast-paced environment
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- The Ladder engineering team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join us in reimagining what life insurance can be
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform Team, you will work directly on our underlying infrastructure and services
- You will leverage both your software and infrastructure knowledge to build critical services on which customers depend
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements, deliver efficient and reliable solutions and continuously improve our infrastructure
- Solve a variety of technical challenges and drive the development of software to democratize the Life Insurance industry
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, developer tooling and data & monitoring systems used by other teams
- Conceive and build tools to improve engineering productivity
- Collaborate closely with team members and product managers
- Quickly build ownership over major parts of our codebase
- Explore data to provide insights into the Ladder product and business
- Continually improve code quality, performance and reliability
- Implement security best practices
Our take
Ladder is a life insurance company whose primary aim is to simplify the process of acquiring life insurance. In the past, getting coverage for life insurance has been a lengthy and time-consuming affair, but with Ladder, applicants can answer a few questions and sign up on their phones.
Jamie, the current CEO, felt the life-changing impact of life insurance on his own family when he lost his father at a young age before struggling to get life insurance policies for himself as an adult.
The market for life insurance in the US alone is worth over $128 billion, and Ladder faces stiff competition from Haven Life, a subsidiary of insurance giant MassMutual. Ladder will face stiff competition when traditional insurers undergo the digital transformation needed to join Ladder in offering five-minute life insurance policies via smartphone.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Feb 2020
$37.5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $196.1m
Company benefits
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage | We offer competitive healthcare,dental and vision plans for you and your family
- Flexible paid time off | Take the time that you need to rest and recharge, including our week-long winter holiday closure
- Stock options | We offer competitive stock option packages to participate in the success of building Ladder, including an extended option exercise window of 7 years after two years with Ladder
- A rewarding 401k match program | We'll match up to 4% of your contributions as you save for your retirement goals
- Ladder Fit Program | Your health matters. That’s why Ladder provides reimbursement of up to $50 a month for wellness-related expenses
- Commuter benefits | When you work from the office, you will receive pre-tax
- Benefits for your commute and free parking
- A stocked, beautiful new office | Located in downtown Palo Alto, our office was specifically designed to accommodate all working styles. We've invested in technology to support our hybrid team, plus we provide office snacks and daily catered lunches so that team members can work well and have fun together
- Paid parental leave | We think it's crucial that new parents have time to adjust to their new lives without worrying about work, so we provide all parents inclusive of birthing, adoption, or fostering ten weeks of paid baby bonding
- Work-from-home flexibility and support | We recognize that everyone's homelife is different and support remote and hybrid work. Upon joining, we provide a one-time $500 remote office stipend for all team members and then a monthly $150 stipend to cover WFH costs such as the internet
- Fun company-wide events | Whether we work locally or remotely, we genuinely enjoy spending time together. That’s why we plan fun virtual and in-person events to let loose and laugh
Company values
- Move fast, learn faster - Stay nimble. Stay curious
- Solve user problem - Everything else follows
- Work hard and laugh - Celebrate and enjoy the journey
- Do more with less - Simplicity wins
- We're in this together - Help each other. Blameless culture. Kindness matters
Company HQ
Downtown North, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Jamie Hale
(CEO)Founding Partner at Aldenwood Capital and former Partner at Oak Hill Investment Management. MBA from Harvard Business School.
Laura Hale
(Head of Product)Former Financial Consultant. Previously an Associate at Robert M. Bass and The Carlyle Group.
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