Senior Staff Software Engineer, Reporting Workflow

Are you passionate about designing large-scale reporting systems that power mission-critical client deliverables? Do you enjoy owning end-to-end workflows that must be correct, performant, and reliable under heavy and uneven load? Are you excited to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and help evolve systems built during a period of rapid growth into their next phase of maturity?

The Reporting Workflow team owns the systems responsible for generating pixel-perfect PDF investment statements delivered to our customers’ end clients. Our customers are investment firms, and their clients range from individuals to institutions with complex portfolios. The reports we generate are a critical client-facing artifact, reflecting performance across multiple timeframes and comparisons against industry benchmarks.

Our systems operate as a batch-oriented platform that coordinates reporting workflows across the broader Ridgeline system. These workflows execute at varying scales and must do so efficiently while being mindful of overall system utilization, throughput, and stability. We operate in a single shared AWS production environment with strict multi-tenant isolation, requiring careful design to ensure scalability, fairness, and absolute data correctness.

We also own UI surfaces that allow users to create, configure, and monitor reporting workflows, blending backend systems engineering with workflow-driven product design. PDF rendering is handled via a third-party templating system, enabling customer-specific layouts while allowing our team to focus on orchestration, batching, domain correctness, and reliability.

As Ridgeline continues to grow, we are entering a phase focused on architectural consolidation, system hardening, and preparing for customers with significantly larger data volumes and portfolio complexity.

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 the Ridgeline Way 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 have:

• Serve as a technical leader for the Reporting Workflow team, shaping the architecture of batch reporting systems that operate at scale under spiky workloads.
• Drive architectural decisions around multi-tenant isolation, rate limiting, backpressure, throughput, and system-wide resource management.
• Identify and lead opportunities to consolidate code and architectural patterns across the product following a period of rapid feature development.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to evolve reporting workflows that reflect real-world investment firm operations.
• Help design and evolve UI-driven configuration and monitoring experiences for complex batch jobs.
• Establish and reinforce engineering best practices around reliability, performance, testing, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and coach senior- and staff-level engineers, raising the technical bar across the organization.
• Think creatively, own complex problems, seek pragmatic solutions, and communicate clearly along the way.
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency.

What we look for:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex, distributed systems.
• Strong architectural judgment and experience designing systems for scale, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Proficiency in a strongly typed, object-oriented programming language such as Kotlin, Java, or C#; experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Familiarity with Python is beneficial for cross-team collaboration and broader platform work.
• Experience building cloud-native systems on AWS, including event-driven and batch-oriented architectures.
• Strong understanding of multi-tenant systems, data isolation, and correctness under concurrency.
• Experience optimizing system performance across CPU, memory, and throughput constraints.
• Familiarity with front-end technologies such as React is a bonus, particularly for workflow-driven UIs.
• Ability to lead without authority, influence architectural direction, and align teams across organizational boundaries.
• Willingness to learn and develop expertise in the investment management domain.
• An aptitude for complex problem solving.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Serious interest in having fun at work.

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.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits

[For New York and California Based Only]

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including, the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $200,000-$235,000. 

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $212,500-$250,000.

Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above. 

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product. 

In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

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