Job description
Staff Full-Stack Engineer - Migrations Engineering
Reno, NV
Are you an experienced engineer with a passion for backend scalability, data pipelines, and solving challenges at scale? Do you thrive when leading complex architectural efforts that power business-critical systems? Are you excited to build AI-integrated solutions that redefine what’s possible in ETL and large-scale data transformation? If so, we invite you to join our innovative team.
Ridgeline’s Migrations Engineering team enables efficient, scalable data movement across our cloud-native platform. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership of high-throughput ingestion and transformation services responsible for processing large volumes of financial data. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across product, implementation, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability, performance, and alignment with evolving customer needs. You’ll also partner with Ridgeline’s AI Platform team and leverage tools like ChatGPT and Cursor to improve developer productivity, accelerate delivery, and elevate code quality across the stack.
What will you do?
- Own and evolve high-throughput data ingest services that normalize raw customer data and enforce schema and business-rule validations
- Design and deliver a next-generation Transform Engine supporting conditional branching, parallel execution paths, and schema-driven transformations at scale
- Scale ingestion pipelines to reliably process multi-million-row files and orchestrate ingests for hundreds of tenants, while enforcing per-tenant concurrency limits
- Mentor and guide engineers through complex, high-impact technical initiatives
- Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort, prioritize features, and align technical design with business goals
- Optimize backend systems for performance, reliability, and maintainability in a distributed AWS environment
- Write high-quality code and automated tests, and produce thorough design and code reviews
- Promote a culture of learning, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Apply modern engineering practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability
- Leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT and Cursor to improve code quality, productivity, and design clarity
Desired Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated record of architecting and delivering full-stack solutions
- Proficiency in Kotlin or equivalent languages
- Front-end experience
- Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong understanding of system design, automated testing, and scalable architecture
- Proficiency with SQL or other database technologies
- Experience with data ingest, data pipelining, or ETL workflows
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to guide projects while also contributing as an individual engineer
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Creative problem-solving mindset and a desire to elevate the people around you
- Passion for building collaborative, inclusive engineering teams
- Ability to work effectively with APIs and metadata
- Comfortable working in-person and seamlessly collaborating with remote teammates
Bonus
- Familiarity with the investment management or FinTech domain
- Hands-on experience with modern AI tools or frameworks that support software development
About Ridgeline
Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry.
Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.
With a growing campus in Reno and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company,” and by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.”
Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace. Ridgeline processes the information you submit in connection with your application in accordance with the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement. Please review the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement in full to understand our privacy practices and contact us with any questions.
Compensation and Benefits
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, 100% of 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.
