Responsibilities
- Analyze frontend rendering behavior and optimize application responsiveness across complex workflows.
- Identify inefficient API usage, excessive client-server communication, and performance bottlenecks.
- Measure and improve real-user performance metrics for critical customer experiences.
- Build and enhance tools for synthetic testing, browser instrumentation, and client-side observability.
- Partner with product engineering teams to improve the performance and reliability of high-impact user journeys.
- Develop scalable approaches for performance profiling, monitoring, and regression detection.
- Establish frontend performance best practices and standards across engineering teams.
- Investigate production performance issues and drive urgent root-cause resolution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in frontend engineering, application engineering, or performance engineering.
- Strong understanding of browser rendering pipelines, frontend optimization techniques, and web performance fundamentals.
- Experience building applications with React or similar frontend frameworks.
- Familiarity with real-user monitoring, performance profiling, and observability tooling.
- Experience analyzing network behavior, API interactions, and client-side performance bottlenecks.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills in modern web application environments.
- Willingness to learn new technologies and develop expertise in a business domain.
- Bonus: experience with synthetic monitoring or browser automation frameworks.
- Bonus: familiarity with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
- Bonus: experience improving performance in enterprise SaaS applications.
- Bonus: knowledge of accessibility and frontend quality best practices.
About Ridgeline
Ridgeline® is the first front-to-back system of record for investment managers. Founded by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday), the company was created to modernize an industry held back by outdated, disconnected technology. Powered by a single, real-time data set and embedded AI, Ridgeline helps firms automate complexity, accelerate collaboration, and deliver tailored client experiences at scale, without added headcount or risk. Ridgeline is headquartered in Lake Tahoe, with offices in New York, Reno, and the Bay Area, and is recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by Frost & Sullivan as a “Technology Innovation Leader,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.”