Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Contribute hands-on technical skills and design input to a collaborative engineering team
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment
• Build and maintain cloud-native applications using AWS-based services
• Design, develop, and support APIs, events, and distributed services
• Develop data pipelines for ingesting and enriching data
• Implement developer tooling and automation to drive system maintainability
• Participate in production support and on-call rotations
• Drive improvements in observability, instrumentation, and performance monitoring
• Advocate for strong engineering fundamentals and automated testing

Requirements

• 5–7+ years in a software engineering role delivering enterprise-grade applications
• Extensive experience in Java or Kotlin
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience with API development and event-driven architecture
• Understanding of high-availability and distributed systems concepts
• Experience with on-call rotations and L2/L3 support
• Proficiency with observability tooling and production debugging
• Strong grasp of automated testing practices
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data pipelines, reconciliation systems, or market data ingestion
• Experience with Docker or containerization
• Familiarity with agile methodologies
• Experience with caching technologies
• Experience with data modeling or designing schemas
• Exposure to React
• Experience building systems with significant performance or scale requirements

Benefits

• Company Stock Plan
• Unlimited vacation
• Educational and wellness reimbursements
• $0 cost employee insurance plans

About the Company

Ridgeline is the first front-to-back system of record for investment managers, founded by Dave Duffield to modernize the industry through a single, real-time data set and embedded AI.