Staff Software Engineer, UI Experience

Are you passionate about building scalable UI frameworks that elevate developer experience and accelerate product delivery? Do you enjoy setting front-end architecture strategy while mentoring the next generation of software engineers? Are you excited to contribute to a high-leverage platform team that shapes the UI foundation of an entire FinTech ecosystem? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Staff Software Engineer on Ridgeline’s UI Experience team, you’ll play a mission-critical role in building and evolving the core UI framework and component library that powers our next-generation investment management platform. This team lays the foundation for our application user interfaces, enabling product engineers to quickly deliver high-quality, cohesive experiences to our customers. You'll collaborate deeply across teams, guiding architecture decisions and influencing the way Ridgeline builds software. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like Cursor and ChatGPT—you’ll drive innovation, boost developer efficiency, and improve the quality and scalability of our front-end systems.

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:

• Partner closely with product engineers to understand their needs, build highly leverageable solutions, and deliver features for our customers
• Contribute to the thought leadership, technical design, and implementation of our underlying UI framework in an Agile team collaborating on design, strategy, and engineering
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly every step of the way
• Engage in a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
• Demonstrate a strong dedication to code quality, automation, and operational excellence

What we look for:

• 8+ years in a software engineering position or similar function
• Strong history of architecting and designing new products and technologies
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or related discipline
• Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Experience building scalable component libraries and design systems
• Experience using AI tools like Cursor and ChatGPT
• Willingness to learn about new technologies while developing expertise in a business domain/problem space
• Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture perspective
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels and all audiences
• Serious interest in having fun at work

Bonus:

• Experience with investment or asset management applications
• Experience building performant, enterprise-level web experiences at scale
• Knowledge of Node.js and Express
• Knowledge of front-end build tooling in the React ecosystem (e.g., Webpack, ESBuild, bun)
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Understanding of building back-end infrastructure using AWS offerings such as Lambda, S3, CDKTF
• Knowledge of Docker-based container architecture
• Background in design, economics, or finance

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.”

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