Senior Software Engineer, Market Data

As a Ridgeline Senior Software Engineer on our Market Data team, you’ll have the opportunity to build high-quality, complex, industry-defining applications. This team is building the market data backbone of Ridgeline—transforming large volumes of financial data into the trusted, decision-critical data that drives investment decisions. You’ll work on a platform being built from the ground up using cutting-edge technologies in a fast-moving, creative, and progressive environment. As an AI-native company, we leverage modern AI tooling, such as Claude and Cursor, to enhance engineering productivity, accelerate problem-solving, and continuously raise the bar on code quality and system design.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship

• Contribute accounting domain knowledge, design skills, and technical expertise to a team where design, product, and engineering collaborate closely
• Model the Market Data business domain in Ridgeline’s eco-system
• Contribute to the entire AI-native software development process, from requirements and design reviews to shipping code and observing how it lands with our customers.
• Impact a maturing tech stack based on AWS back-end services
• Participate in the creation and construction of developer-based automation that leads to scalable, high-quality applications customers will depend on to run their businesses
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
• Participate in production support, including on-call rotation, ensuring high availability for customer-facing systems

• 5+ years experience in a software engineering
• Experience in Java or Kotlin
• Experience building cloud native applications on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud
• Experience with event driven systems and stream processing
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline
• Experience being on-call
• Experience with production instrumentation, observability, and performance monitoring
• Willingness to learn about new technologies while simultaneously developing expertise in a business domain/problem space
• Ability to leverage AI every day, in all phases of an AI native SDLC to collaborate on designs, improve testing strategies, and deliver high-impact solutions
• Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture long term perspective
• An aptitude for complex problem-solving
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and changing environment
• Serious interest in having fun at work

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.”

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