Ridgeline

Financial Services

StaffQualityEngineer

$152–189k New York, New York, United States Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Staff Quality Engineer at Ridgeline. Skills: Accounting correctness, Investment accounting, Quality engineering. Serve as independent evaluator. Assess financial soundness”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Identify risks; Identify failure modes; Reason through dependencies; Reason through behavior

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Work authorized in US without sponsorship, Experience in investment accounting, Experience in portfolio accounting, Experience in fund accounting, Experience in back-office investment operations, Familiarity with reconciliations, Familiarity with accruals, Familiarity with tax lot accounting, Familiarity with corporate action processing, Familiarity with multi-currency accounting, Ability to identify financial risks, Ability to identify operational risks, Judgment around accounting system behavior, Experience working with software teams, Experience working with Product Managers, Experience working with business analysts, Experience supporting financial systems, Ability to reason through workflow dependencies, Ability to reason through system behavior, Ability to reason through elevated business risk, Clear articulation of expected outcomes, Clear articulation of edge cases, Clear articulation of quality concerns, Demonstrated ownership mindset, Ability to operate independently, Curiosity to engage with software development, Curiosity to engage with quality engineering

Nice to Have

Prior experience in Quality Engineering, Prior experience in software testing, Prior experience in test automation, Experience using portfolio accounting platforms, Experience supporting portfolio accounting platforms, Experience using investment operations systems, Experience supporting investment operations systems, CPA, Accounting degree, Formal accounting education, Experience with SaaS fintech, Experience with investment management platforms, Familiarity with API testing, Familiarity with automation frameworks, Familiarity with CI/CD practices, Familiarity with test-driven development, Experience mentoring teammates, Experience influencing quality practices

What You'll Do.

Serve as independent evaluator

Assess financial soundness

Assess operational reliability

Engage as co-equal partner

Contribute quality lens

Operate independently on features

Engage in requirements discussions

Engage in design discussions

Make sound quality judgments

Define expected accounting outcomes

Define acceptance criteria

Participate in requirements reviews

Participate in design reviews

Surface workflow gaps

Surface missing edge cases

Surface cross-system risk

Evaluate investment accounting workflows

Identify behavioral failure modes

Distinguish technically valid implementations

Distinguish operationally correct outcomes

Lead domain-focused test planning

Validate accounting outcomes

Collaborate to improve confidence

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnership with product managers; Partnership with engineers; Cross-functional teams; Partnerships rooted in transparency; Partnerships rooted in accountability; Partnerships rooted in shared ownership

Communication Scope

Articulate expected outcomes; Articulate edge cases; Articulate quality concerns

Process & Methodology

Requirements definition, Design discussions, Test planning

Full Job Description

Do you have experience working with investment accounting systems where correctness depends as much on domain judgment as technical implementation? Have you worked through complex accounting workflows like accruals, reconciliations, tax lot accounting, corporate actions, or multi-currency processing and developed an instinct for where operational risk lives? Do you understand how to distinguish a technically valid implementation from an accounting outcome that's actually correct — and enjoy bringing that perspective in close partnership with product managers and engineers? If this kind of work interests you, we'd love to talk. As a Staff Quality Engineer at Ridgeline, you’ll ensure the correctness and reliability of our Investment Accounting platform. The work involves complex accounting workflows where subtle behavioral issues can have meaningful operational and financial impact. This role is focused first on accounting and operational understanding: recognizing how investment accounting workflows behave in practice, identifying where subtle failures can emerge, and independently evaluating whether outcomes are operationally correct and client-ready. This is not a downstream validation role. QE here is a continuous partner from requirements through release, engaged at every stage where accounting correctness is at stake. You'll work closely with Product Managers and engineers to define expected behavior, validate correctness, and strengthen the quality of what reaches clients. As AI continues to reshape how teams build and validate software, Ridgeline is incorporating tools like Claude Code and Cursor to increase iteration speed and expand engineering leverage, making strong accounting judgment and independent evaluation of system behavior even more important. 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

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