Senior Staff Software Engineer, Portfolio

Ridgeline•Reno, NV

58d•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you a technical leader who thrives on solving complex data challenges in the investment management space? Do you have a passion for financial markets, asset modeling, and building scalable systems? Are you excited to architect and evolve core platform services that enable transparency and speed across the investment lifecycle? If so, we invite you to join our innovative team. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Ridgeline's Portfolio team, you'll help build an industry-defining platform that powers key services such as Portfolio, Market Data, and Security Master. Your work will directly shape how investment data is modeled, integrated, and delivered-supporting complex asset classes, global market coverage, and real-time insights. You will translate nuanced financial concepts into extensible, high-performance systems and collaborate across disciplines to scale our backend infrastructure. Working with cutting-edge technologies-including AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT-you'll refine both platform architecture and team productivity, contributing to a culture of innovation and engineering excellence. 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.

Requirements

12+ years in software engineering with demonstrated technical leadership in designing large-scale platforms
3+ years in staff-level or higher roles guiding architecture and mentoring teams
Experience building and deploying systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure
Background in financial services, particularly high-availability systems
Strong understanding of CQRS, event-driven design, and data modeling for both transactional and analytical workloads
Hands-on experience with on-call rotations, instrumentation, and observability practices
Ability to distill complex problems into scalable technical solutions
Willingness to learn and develop expertise in a new business domain
Clear, confident communication skills with both technical and non-technical partners
Serious interest in having fun at work

Nice To Haves

CFA Charter or deep familiarity with financial instruments and accounting concepts
3+ years experience in Portfolio Accounting, Reconciliation, Market Data, or Performance
Experience with containerization tools such as Docker
Proficiency in Java or Kotlin
Familiarity with agile development practices
Track record of leading large-scale, cross-team technical initiatives
Ability to elevate team performance by amplifying others' ideas and providing thoughtful feedback

Responsibilities

Design and evolve backend systems supporting portfolio, market, and security data for the Ridgeline investment management platform
Architect data models that handle complex relationships, global assets, and real-time updates across investment workflows
Build scalable cloud-native applications using AWS infrastructure and event-driven architectures
Develop and refine systems that support both OLTP and OLAP data use cases
Model financial domain behaviors into performant, testable, and observable software components
Mentor engineering teams by instilling best practices, encouraging technical ownership, and fostering growth
Contribute to developer automation strategies that improve quality, speed, and resiliency of deployments
Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design teams to translate ideas into customer-centric solutions
Drive continuous improvement through observability, performance monitoring, and production excellence
Champion a culture of learning, knowledge-sharing, and transparent communication