Senior Software Engineer, UI Experience

Ridgeline•New York, NY

7h•$146,000 - $172,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you passionate about building scalable UI frameworks that elevate developer experience and accelerate product delivery? Do you enjoy identifying the right design patterns to build a sustainable component library that enables exceptional developer experiences and expedites product delivery? Are you excited to contribute to a high-leverage platform team that shapes the UI foundation of an entire FinTech ecosystem? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team. As a Senior Software Engineer on Ridgeline’s UI Experience team, you’ll play a mission-critical role in building and evolving the core UI framework and component library that powers our next-generation investment management platform. This team lays the foundation for our application user interfaces, enabling product engineers to quickly deliver high-quality, cohesive experiences to our customers. You'll collaborate deeply across teams, guiding architecture decisions and influencing the way Ridgeline builds software. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like Cursor and ChatGPT—you’ll drive innovation, boost developer efficiency, and improve the quality and scalability of our front-end systems. 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.

Requirements

5+ years in a software engineering position or similar function
History of architecting and designing new products and technologies
A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or related discipline
Strong expertise in TypeScript, React, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Experience building scalable component libraries and design systems
Experience using AI tools like Cursor and ChatGPT
Willingness to learn about new technologies while developing expertise in a business domain/problem space
Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture perspective
Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels and all audiences
Serious interest in having fun at work

Nice To Haves

Experience with investment or asset management applications
Experience building performant, enterprise-level web experiences at scale
Knowledge of front-end build tooling in the React ecosystem (e.g., Webpack, ESBuild, bun)
Experience with agile development methodologies
Background in design, economics, or finance

Responsibilities

Partner closely with product engineers to understand their needs, build highly leverageable solutions, and deliver features for our customers
Contribute to the thought leadership, technical design, and implementation of our underlying UI framework in an Agile team collaborating on design, strategy, and engineering
Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly every step of the way
Engage in a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
Demonstrate a strong dedication to code quality, automation, and operational excellence