Ridgeline

Staff Software Engineer, Performance and Analytics

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Base Salary

$201k - $251k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement the next-generation performance and analytics platform for investment management.
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design reviews, implementation, and delivery.
  • Build and evolve scalable cloud-native backend services on AWS-based infrastructure.
  • Create developer-focused automation that supports scalable, high-quality applications.
  • Work with performance, attribution, benchmark, return, and analytical metrics over large-scale datasets.
  • Optimize analytical queries and contribute to data modeling for analytical use cases.
  • Collaborate transparently with design, strategy, and engineering partners while owning problems and solutions.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with a history of architecting and designing new products and technologies.
  • Experience with Kotlin or similar programming languages.
  • Familiarity with OLAP or columnar databases and the ability to optimize queries.
  • Understanding of data modeling for analytical use cases and interest in running complex analytics over large datasets.
  • Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline.
  • Ability to learn new technologies, develop business-domain expertise, solve complex problems, communicate clearly, and balance near-term delivery with long-term perspective.
  • Understanding of the value of automated tests at all levels.
  • Bonus: buy-side technology experience; GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT experience; ETL pipelines moving data into OLAP systems; and familiarity with TWR, Brinson Attribution, and Profit and Loss.

Benefits

  • Typical starting base salary range of $200,500-$251,000.
  • Company Stock Plan participation, subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement.
  • Unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans.
  • Opportunities for career advancement and meaningful product impact.
  • Hybrid work arrangement.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureGoogle CloudKotlin

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Ridgeline

About Ridgeline

501-1,000 employees

Ridgeline builds a cloud-native, AI-enabled front-to-back investment management platform for asset and wealth managers, unifying portfolio accounting, trading/compliance, reporting, and client experience tools on a single data model. It sells enterprise software as a subscription and runs on AWS. Founded in 2018 by Dave Duffield, the company is headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada, with offices in New York, Reno, and the Bay Area.

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