Staff Software Engineer, Client Management

Are you an experienced full stack engineer ready to tackle complex challenges with innovative solutions? Do you thrive in collaborative environments where your work can shape product design and team culture? Are you excited to apply your expertise in modern engineering frameworks and eager to leverage AI-enhanced tools to drive change in the fintech industry? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Ridgeline, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build high-quality, complex, FinTech industry-defining cloud applications for our Client Management solutions. Our engineers are developing cutting-edge technologies in a fast-moving, creative, and progressive work environment. You’ll think outside the box and add your own genius, passion, and interests to the software development lifecycle. Client Management is the entry into Ridgeline’s suite of applications, supporting portfolio onboarding, investor 360 views, and partner relationship management. This is your chance to influence the tech, culture, and outcomes of a rapidly growing product team. You’ll work with modern tools, including AI-powered resources like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, to build innovative solutions that challenge the status quo of investment management.

At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If the Ridgeline Way excites you, we’d love to meet you.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

The impact you will have :

• Be involved in the entire SDLC, from the inception of requirements and design reviews with our customer success, product management and design teams, through the implementation of new products
• Contribute your extensive technical and architectural knowledge to an Agile team collaborating on strategy, design, engineering and testing
• Demonstrate a strong dedication to code quality, automation and operational excellence through the creation of unit / contract / integration tests and robust logging / monitoring
• Impact our developing tech stack based on modern frameworks and cost-efficient utilization of AWS services
• Participate in the creation of automation that promotes scalable, high-quality applications that our customers will depend on to run their business
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions and communicate clearly
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching and transparency
• Coach, mentor and inspire your teammates

What we look for :

Bonus :

Backend : JAVA and / or Kotlin as microservices using Docker

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.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product.

In addition to the base salary, 100% of Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be : one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our  Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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