Staff Full Stack Engineer, Client Engagement

As a Staff Full Stack Engineer at Ridgeline, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build high-quality, complex, FinTech industry-defining cloud applications for our Client Engagement solutions. Our team of engineers are building from scratch, using 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 unique perspective every step of the way.

Ridgeline Client Engagement is the entry into the Ridgeline suite of applications for client and portfolio onboarding and partner relationships, providing an investor 360 view and lightweight service automation. Ridgeline Revenue Management (RM) is a complementary application for fee calculations, invoicing and revenue analytics, while Client Portal (CP) is a tightly-coupled landing spot for the clients of our customers to view transactions, performance data and documents related to their portfolio(s).

 As a member of the Ridgeline RM or CP teams, you will be building innovative solutions on a forward-looking tech stack, making a big impact on a small team, helping to shape our culture and being part of the Ridgeline success story.  Our teams aim to leave a legacy in an investment management industry that is primed for the next evolution of products.

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 in 2017 by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to address the unique technology challenges of an industry in need of new thinking. We are building a modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industr