Senior Software Engineer, Portfolio Accounting

Do you enjoy building scalable financial systems that power complex investment operations? Are you excited by the opportunity to solve challenging accounting and data problems in a collaborative engineering environment? Are you motivated by creating reliable, high-quality software while growing your technical expertise alongside a talented team?

If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team. As a Ridgeline Software Engineer on our Core Accounting team, you’ll help build and evolve an industry-defining accounting platform with support for complex financial workflows, global market data, and high-scale processing needs. You’ll partner closely with engineers, product managers, and domain experts to deliver reliable, performant software that helps investment managers operate with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Our team of engineers are building with cutting-edge technologies—like Claude Code and Cursor—in a fast-moving, creative, progressive work environment. You’ll contribute across the software development lifecycle, from collaborating on system design to delivering production-ready features and improving platform reliability. Working closely with experienced engineers and cross-functional partners, you’ll have the opportunity to deepen your expertise in financial systems while helping shape innovative solutions that modernize the investment management industry.

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.

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

discussions, implementation, testing, and deployment Build reliable and maintainable backend systems that support complex accounting and investment workflows Improve application performance, observability, and operational reliability Develop automated tests and contribute to engineering best practices that support long-term platform quality Partner with teammates to troubleshoot production issues and support highly available systems Learn and apply AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows to improve development efficiency and software quality Contribute ideas, feedback, and technical insights in team discussions and design reviews Think creatively, own problems, seek pragmatic solutions, and communicate clearly along the way Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency What we look for: 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and delivering production applications Experience developing applications in FinTech, accounting systems, market data platforms, or related domains Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline Experience building backend or cloud-native applications, preferably on AWS Familiarity with software engineering best practices, including testing, code reviews, and monitoring Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and scalable application design principles Strong collaboration and communication skills Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain/problem space An aptitude for problem solving Ability to communicate effectively Serious interest in having fun at work Bonus: Experience with Java or Kotlin Familiarity with AWS services and infrastructure Experience with Docker or containerization technologies Understa