Ridgeline

investment management

SoftwareEngineer,MigrationsEngineering

$153–191k Reno, Nevada, United States; San Ramon, California, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer, Migrations Engineering at Ridgeline. Skills: Backend Engineering, Data Pipelines, Migration Tooling. Design and build scalable backend systems. Develop data pipelines and ingestion systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Scale onboarding and migration capabilities; Improve scalability; Reduce operational friction; Accelerate customer migrations; Support company's long-term growth

Industry & Context.

investment management
Problems you'll solve

Navigate ambiguity; Independently drive features

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years of professional software engineering experience, object-oriented backend engineering fundamentals, Experience building systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar), Experience independently delivering production software, Ability to navigate ambiguity and collaborate through design and alignment phases

Nice to Have

Experience building data platforms, data pipelines, or distributed systems, Familiarity with technologies such as Spark, Trino, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, or similar, Experience working on large-scale ingestion or analytical systems, Frontend development experience with modern UI frameworks, Experience supporting data migration or onboarding workflows in B2B SaaS environments, Experience operating within platform engineering or infrastructure-focused teams

What You'll Do.

Design and build scalable backend systems

Develop data pipelines and ingestion systems

Contribute to migration tooling

Improve and modernize internal bulk tooling

Translate ambiguous requirements into technical designs

Drive features from design through delivery

Align on architecture and implementation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with cross-functional teams; Collaborate with engineers across distributed offices

Full Job Description

Software Engineer, Migrations Engineering Reno, NV / San Ramon, CA (Hybrid) About Ridgeline Ridgeline is redefining investment management software for the modern era. Built by the team behind BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, Ridgeline delivers a cloud-native platform purpose-built for investment management firms. Our mission is ambitious: replace legacy systems with a unified platform that enables scale, operational efficiency, and innovation across the industry. We believe the future of enterprise software is modern, composable, and deeply scalable. That’s why we’re investing heavily in platform engineering, data infrastructure, and migration tooling that can power the next generation of investment operations. The Opportunity We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help build the next generation of Ridgeline’s data platform and migration infrastructure. In this role, you’ll work across backend systems, data pipelines, platform tooling, and lightweight frontend experiences to help scale our onboarding and migration capabilities. You’ll partner closely with engineers across multiple offices to design and deliver systems that improve scalability, reduce operational friction, and accelerate customer migrations. This role requires strong backend engineering fundamentals, comfort navigating ambiguity, and the ability to independently drive features from concept through delivery. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact technical infrastructure with visibility across the company while helping shape the future of data operations at Ridgeline. What You’ll Do Design and build scalable backend systems and data platform capabilities Develop data pipelines and ingestion systems capable of operating at very large scale Contribute to migration tooling that helps customers transition from legacy systems to Ridgeline Improve and modernize internal bulk tooling and operational workflows Partner with cross-functional teams to reduce dependency on legacy custom tooling Translate am

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