Are you a visionary engineer who thrives on designing scalable infrastructure and solving complex data challenges? Do you enjoy optimizing large dataset queries to create innovative solutions for diverse use cases? Are you excited to leverage cutting-edge AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to boost creativity and streamline workflows? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.
Ridgeline is looking for a seasoned Senior Engineer to join our Reporting team. You will play a pivotal role in building robust infrastructure, addressing complex data challenges, and expanding frameworks for new and existing user features. By joining our dynamic FinTech startup, you’ll contribute to redefining investment management technology while fostering a collaborative and engaging work environment.
What will you do?
• Lead architecture broadly within Reporting and influence architecture across the company
• Contribute technical design opinions and fuel decision-making to fast paced, growing team
• Partner closely with design, strategy, and engineering teammates and work in a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
• Engage in the entire development process, from requirements and design reviews through implementation and testing
• Impact a developing tech stack based on AWS back-end services
• Create automation that leads to scalable, high-quality applications customers will depend on to run their businesses
• Coach, mentor, and inspire fellow engineers to deliver high performing, secure enterprise applications
• Think creatively, tackle complex problems, seek innovative solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
Desired Skills and Experience
• 12+ years in a software engineering position with a history of architecting and designing new products and technologies
• Experience with Kotlin (Java) and/or Python and ideally React
• Strong proficiency in working with Relational or Analytical databases, with the capability to optimize queries
• Experience building cloud native applications on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline
• Willingness to learn about new technologies and develop expertise in a business domain/problem space
• Understand the value of automated testing at all levels
• Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture long term perspective
• An aptitude for complex problem-solving
• Ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels
• Serious interest in having fun at work
• Ability to communicate effectively
Bonus:
• Buy-side technology experience
• Experience with GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT
• Familiar with industry software & data sets: Bloomberg, FactSet, Refinitiv, ICE
• Familiar with performance concepts and methodologies: TWR, Brinson Attribution, Profit and Loss
About Ridgeline
Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry.
Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.
With a growing campus in Reno and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company,” and by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.”