Senior AI Agentic Engineer - Remote, Lead Complex Workstreams

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Sr. Agentic Engineer to join our team remotely from the United States.

The role focuses on translating AI-assisted development into reliable, production-ready software delivery, partnering with product and engineering to set technical direction and drive execution across multiple workstreams. You will build specifications, workflows, and quality checks to enable agent-driven development with strong emphasis on correctness, security, and customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on customer-facing software in production.
• Experience using AI coding agents for feature delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Proficient in designing systems and data models for performance and data-flow optimization.
• Ability to write clear agent specifications and technical documentation for team execution.
• Expertise in context engineering for reliable agent execution across teams.
• Proven skills in designing agent workflows with human checkpoints for parallel execution.
• Strong debugging skills, including root-cause analysis of unfamiliar code.

Responsibilities

• Shape product opportunities into actionable technical direction for engineers.
• Write detailed agent specifications to guide team execution and set quality standards.
• Apply judgment to determine when to delegate tasks to agents versus when human input is necessary.
• Steer multiple agents through implementation across concurrent workstreams to maximize output.
• Set verification standards for features, ensuring thorough testing and production readiness.
• Own the entire feature lifecycle, focusing on correctness, security, and customer impact.
• Influence product decisions by integrating engineering insights into development discussions.

Skills

AI coding agents

System design

Agent specifications

Context engineering

Agent workflows

Debugging

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Sr. Agentic Engineer to join our team remotely from the United States.

The role focuses on translating AI-assisted development into reliable, production-ready software delivery, partnering with product and engineering to set technical direction and drive execution across multiple workstreams. You will build specifications, workflows, and quality checks to enable agent-driven development with strong emphasis on correctness, security, and customer impact.