Senior Staff Software Engineer, Analytics & Accounting

Do you have a passion for finance investing? Are you interested in modeling the industry’s data and making it highly available? Are you a technical leader who enjoys refining both technology performance and team collaboration? If so, we invite you to join our innovative team. As a Ridgeline Senior Staff Software Engineer on our Product Technology team, including Portfolio Accounting and Performanace Measurement and Analytics, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build an industry-defining, fast, scalable accounting engine with full asset class support and global market coverage. You will be relied on for your technical leadership to help the team evolve our architecture, scale to meet our growth opportunity, and exemplify software engineering best practices. Our team of engineers are building with cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like Claude Code—in a fast-moving, creative, progressive work environment. You’ll be encouraged to think outside the box, bringing your own vision, passion, and insights to drive advancements that impact both our team and the industry. Our team is committed to creating a lasting impact on the investment management industry, leveraging AI and leading development practices to bring transformative change. At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If this excites you, we’d love to meet you. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. The impact you will make: Contribute domain knowledge, design skills, and technical expertise to a cross-functional team Be involved in the entire software development process—from requirements and design reviews to shipping production code Architect and evolve a cloud-native tech stack on AWS for scalable, performant accounting systems Build developer automation to enable scalable, high-quality applications relied on by asset managers Coach and mentor product engineers responsible for delivering secure, high-performing enterprise applications Think creatively, own complex problems, seek pragmatic solutions, and communicate clearly along the way Drive engineering best practices that ensure maintainability, observability, and high availability Contribute to a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and transparent collaboration What we look for: Passion for AI experience leveraging AI to accelerate technology projects 12+ years in software engineering with a proven record of designing and delivering new products 3+ years in Staff+ leadership roles influencing teams and architecture Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or related discipline Experience building cloud-native applications (AWS preferred) Familiarity with high-availability systems, production on-call, and performance monitoring Understanding of automated testing at all levels Ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term architectural thinking Excellent communicator with strong collaboration skills Serious interest in having fun at work Bonus: Experience with Java or Kotlin Understanding of AWS services and infrastructure Experience with Docker or containerization Familiarity with agile development methodologies Experience with caching and data modeling Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-team technical projects Proven ability to prioritize and juggle multiple projects Ability to amplify the ideas and contributions of others A responsibility-driven mindset that extends beyond just writing code Comfort in fast-paced, evolving environments Passion for exploring and applying cutting-edge technologies About Ridgeline Ridgeline is the first front-to-back system of record for investment manager ... (truncated, view full listing at source)