Staff Software Engineer, Post Trade

<p>Are you an engineer who loves building complex, game-changing solutions from scratch? Do you thrive on thinking outside the box and bringing fresh ideas to life in a fast-paced, creative environment? Are you excited to help shape the future of trading by developing high-impact applications on a modern tech stack? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.</p> <p>As a Ridgeline Staff Software Engineer on our Trading team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build high-quality, complex, industry defining applications for our Post Trading solution. Our team of engineers are building from scratch in cutting edge technologies in a fast-moving, creative, progressive work environment. You’ll think outside the box and add your own genius, passion, and interests to the software development lifecycle. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies—and harnessing the power of AI tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT—you’ll help shape an industry-defining platform from the ground up, all while collaborating in a creative, fast-paced environment.</p> <p>As part of the Ridgeline Trading team building a brand new solution on cutting edge technology to market, you will help shape our culture, make a big impact on a small team, and learn what it takes to build a successful company. Our team aims to leave a legacy in an industry primed for change.</p> <p><strong>The impact you will make:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Contribute design skills and technical expertise to a team where design, strategy, and engineering collaborate closely</li> <li>Be involved in the entire software development process, from requirements and design reviews through the implementation of new products</li> <li>Impact a developing tech stack based on modern front-end frameworks and cost-efficient utilization of AWS back-end services</li> <li>Participate in the creation and construction of developer-based automation that leads to scalable, high-quality applications customers will depend on to run their businesses</li> <li>Coach, mentor, and inspire teams of product engineers that are responsible for delivering high performing, secure enterprise applications</li> <li>Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way</li> <li>Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we look for:</strong></p> <ul> <li>A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline</li> <li>8+ years in a software engineering position with a history of architecting and designing for high performance and high availability</li> <li>6+ years of backend or fullstack development using Java/Kotlin</li> <li>Experience with electronic trading or order management,