Senior Front End Engineer, Portfolio

Ridgeline • Reno, NV

5d

About The Position

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.
You’ll be encouraged to think outside the box, bringing your own vision, passion, and insights to drive advancements that impact both our team and the industry. Our team is committed to creating a lasting impact on the investment management industry, leveraging AI and leading development practices to bring transformative change.
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.
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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or related discipline
• 5+ years building web front-ends with React, JavaScript, TypeScript, 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees