Senior Front End Engineer, Portfolio

Overview

Do you have a passion for finance & investing? Are you an experienced frontend engineer ready to tackle complex portfolio challenges with innovative solutions? Do you thrive in collaborative environments where design, strategy, and engineering converge? Are you excited to contribute to a cutting-edge Fin Tech platform using modern frameworks and AI-enhanced tools like Git Hub Copilot, Claude Code and ChatGPT?

If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

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

The impact you will have:

• Contribute to and learn Portfolio domain knowledge
• Bring your design skills, and technical expertise to a team where design, product, and engineering collaborate closely
• Be involved in the entire software development process, from requirements and design reviews to shipping code and observing how it lands with our customers.
• Impact a developing 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
• Coach, mentor, and inspire teams of product engineers that are responsible for delivering high performing, secure enterprise applications
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

As a Ridgeline Senior Front End Engineer on our Portfolio team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build an industry-defining platform that powers Portfolio, Market Data, and Security Master services across the Ridgeline ecosystem. You’ll help design and implement a fast, scalable, and reliable foundation for the data that drives our investment management SAAS platform—supporting complex asset classes, global market coverage, and real-time insights.

You’ll also play a key role in modeling the intricate relationships and behaviors of the investment management domain, translating financial concepts into robust, extensible data systems. Additionally, your expertise will be relied upon to evolve our architecture, scale our systems to meet rapid growth, and exemplify software engineering best practices.

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.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or related discipline
• 5+ years building web front-ends with React, JavaScript, Type Script, and related tooling
• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Strong commitment to automated testing at all levels
• Experience building scalable component libraries and design systems
• Experience using AI tools like Cursor and ChatGPT
• Willingness to learn new technologies while developing expertise in a business domain
• Ability to balance short-term deliverables with long-term vision
• Clear communicator with strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Serious interest in having fun while solving meaningful problems

• Experience with investment or asset management applications
• Experience building performant, enterprise-level web experiences at scale
• Knowledge of Node.js
• Knowledge of front-end build tooling in the React ecosystem (e.g., Webpack, ESBuild, bun)
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Understanding of building back-end infrastructure using AWS offerings such as Lambda, S3, CDKTF
• Knowledge of Docker-based container architecture
• Background in design, economics, or finance

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both People Soft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business…