Remote Senior Search Engineer — Geospatial ML & Autocomplete

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with 4% match

New HQ in Flatiron, NYC

Top-notch equipment provided

Catered lunches

Unlimited PTO

Health, dental, and vision insurance

12 weeks of paid parental leave

Commuter benefits

Fitness benefits

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for Search to join our information technology leadership team. This role focuses on advancing search and location intelligence powering high-volume customer-facing products and collaborates with data, product, and customer teams to transform feedback into stronger engineering solutions at scale.

Location: Remote. You will help improve query understanding, ranking, data enrichment, and retrieval across geocoding and autocomplete experiences,

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience, preferably in high-throughput systems.
• Proficiency in Scala and Python for data pipeline development.
• Experience with Rust for backend services, particularly geospatial databases.
• Familiarity with machine learning and large language models (LLMs).
• Strong problem-solving skills and a generalist mindset across tech stacks.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and incorporate feedback into engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Enhance geocoding and autocomplete systems through improved query understanding and ranking
• Leverage ML and LLMs to enrich and expand location data
• Automate data pipelines to streamline data integration and corrections
• Integrate new data sources to improve normalization and matching processes
• Collaborate across data and search systems to optimize indexing and retrieval
• Engage with customers to gather feedback and drive product improvements
• Contribute to a high-volume API environment handling over 1 billion calls daily

Skills

Scala

Python

Rust

Machine learning

LLMs

Problem solving

Generalist mindset

Customer feedback

Tools

Geospatial databases

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for Search to join our information technology leadership team. This role focuses on advancing search and location intelligence powering high-volume customer-facing products and collaborates with data, product, and customer teams to transform feedback into stronger engineering solutions at scale.

Location: Remote. You will help improve query understanding, ranking, data enrichment, and retrieval across geocoding and autocomplete experiences,