Remote Senior Staff Engineer: Architect of Scalable Systems
Ladders
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Job summary
Ladders is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer (Fullstack/Backend) to shape architectural direction for customer-facing systems in healthcare. This remote role requires senior technical leadership to drive scalable solutions and align engineering with business goals.
You will mentor leaders, improve development practices, and partner with executives to translate customer needs into reliable, high-growth platforms supporting the company's long-term vision.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with group-level technical leadership.
- Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or Go with expertise in system design for scale.
- Experience scaling shared infrastructure and frameworks across teams.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, cloud infrastructure, and observability tools.
- Proven ability to drive architectural clarity and technical alignment across functions.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing systems.
- Establish quality and operational excellence frameworks across the organization.
- Collaborate with leadership to align architecture with strategic goals.
- Mentor senior technical leaders to elevate engineering capabilities.
- Lead through complexity, clarify direction, and remove blockers.
- Translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Design systems to support sustainable growth and prioritize non-functional requirements.
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Job description
Ladders is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer (Fullstack/Backend) to shape architectural direction for customer-facing systems in healthcare. This remote role requires senior technical leadership to drive scalable solutions and align engineering with business goals.
You will mentor leaders, improve development practices, and partner with executives to translate customer needs into reliable, high-growth platforms supporting the company's long-term vision.
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