Staff Full Stack Engineer, Client Communications

Are you an experienced full stack engineer with a deep understanding of SaaS architectures and a passion for building beautifully responsive, data-rich web applications? Do you thrive on working closely with design, product, and customer success teams to deliver user-centric solutions that scale? Are you excited to contribute to a greenfield platform that’s redefining the FinTech landscape for investment management? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Staff Full Stack Engineer on Ridgeline’s Client Communications team, you’ll help create secure, scalable, and elegant solutions that enable investment managers to deliver a premium digital experience to their clients. This role will focus on building high-quality, cloud-native applications that surface key portfolio performance, transactional insights, and documents—helping our customers foster stronger relationships with investors. You will operate across the entire stack, shaping architecture, engineering best practices, and code quality while using cutting-edge tools including ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to supercharge your workflow. This is a chance to leave your mark on an evolving, purpose-built platform in a deeply collaborative, progressive environment.

What will you do?

• 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

Desired Skills and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Science or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in full stack engineering, with a strong background in developing and maintaining scalable software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Demonstrated mastery of data structures, algorithms and architectural patterns.
• Proficient in developing backend services, with experience using modern programming languages suitable for microservices architectures. Familiarity with containerization technology.
• Understanding of API design and implementation (RESTful services, real-time data processing) and experience with messaging systems. Experience writing scalable/performant code that manages high volume numerical data and generated values where precision was essential.
• Capabilities in building responsive interfaces using modern frontend frameworks and languages. Experience with CSS and component-based architecture.
• Experienced with deploying and managing applications on major cloud platforms, with a focus on optimizing scalability and reliability.
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices and infrastructure as code (IaC) for efficient deployment and management of cloud resources.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools to ensure application health and performance. Ability to quickly diagnose and address production issues.

Bonus:

• Knowledge of any of the following specific tools and technologies would be particularly advantageous:
  • Backend: JAVA and/or Kotlin as microservices using Docker
  • Transport: REST/JSON APIs, GraphQL, Kafka
  • Frontend: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS
  • Platform: AWS
  • Deployment: CI/CD, IaC (Terraform)
  • Logging/Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
• AI and code automation tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. 
• Experience with investment/asset management, CRM and/or invoicing applications
• Background in finance or economics

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