--- title: 'Staff Frontend Engineer, Market Data at Ridgeline' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-frontend-engineer-market-data-ridgeline-reno-bq7edrws37sp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Staff Frontend Engineer, Market Data at Ridgeline - **Company:** Ridgeline - **Location:** Reno, NV - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/ridgeline/jobs/7964423003?gh_jid=7964423003 ## Job description Are you a front-end engineer energized by leading UI modernization and solving complex technical challenges? If so, we'd love to talk. As a Staff Frontend Engineer on Ridgeline's Market Data team, you'll lead the team’s UI modernization efforts and play a key role in the Instrument Master migration, driving the shift from legacy front-end patterns to modern practices. Market Data is responsible for bringing external data into Ridgeline and making it available to every user and customer, maintaining the data models and relationships that power the platform and exposing them through quality APIs and data contracts. Today, that means modernizing legacy UI patterns across surfaces like Instrument Master; over time, you'll help set the front-end technical direction for the broader team. At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. If the Ridgeline Way excites you, we'd love to meet you. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. The impact you will have: - Evaluate current UI components for modernization opportunities and research modern front-end frameworks and libraries. Serve as the team's primary link to the Platform UI organization, quickly understanding and implementing new patterns and capabilities into the team's projects. - Guide early- to mid-career developers by sharing coding best practices and providing constructive feedback during code reviews. Push the team to tackle harder technical problems and raise the bar on quality. - Define a UI strategy that aligns with overall product goals. Partner with adjacent teams identify opportunities to unify shared capabilities across the broader engineering organization. - Collaborate with product managers to clarify user needs and translate them into precise technical specifications, keeping frontend and backend teams aligned on integration needs. - Lead front-end engineering initiatives to adopt modern UI practices and improve overall code quality. Mentor team members on advanced techniques and frameworks, identify skill gaps, and establish coding standards that raise the codebase's quality bar. - Contribute to the migration of the Instrument Master UI — one of the most heavily used surfaces in the product — identifying and mitigating risks as part of a broader overhaul to modern technology patterns. - Analyze the existing codebase to identify opportunities for improved maintainability, implement automated testing strategies to boost test coverage, and refactor legacy code to simplify structure and improve readability. - Partner with backend engineers to define API specifications and data contracts, and identify and resolve issues related to data flow between frontend and backend systems. What we look for: - 10+ years of industry experience in front-end development, with a track record of leading UI modernization projects that measurably improved the user experience. - Strong expertise in React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with experience across UI component libraries and design patterns. - Experience in UI testing frameworks like Playwright, Cypress, and Jest. - Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, including guiding early-career engineers and contributing to their professional growth. - Experience migrating a legacy system to a modern tech stack while managing risk and ensuring a smooth transition. - Experience working in an agile environment. - Familiarity with automated testing strategies and frameworks, with a track record of driving code quality and testing practices that raise team standards. - Experience with code quality tools and coding standards. - Ability to define and implement API specifications for frontend/backend integration. - Ability to leverage AI across all phases of the development lifecycle (AI-native SDLC), including design collaboration and testing strategy. - Experience partnering across teams to unify capabilities and improve product cohesion. - Genuine curiosity about the financial services / investment management space (deep domain expertise not required). Bonus: - AWS / cloud-native application experience - Backend-for-front-end development experience - Java or Kotlin experience - Background in financial services or investment management (a plus, not required) ## About Ridgeline Ridgeline is the first front-to-back system of record for investment managers. Founded by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday), the company was created to modernize an industry held back by outdated, disconnected technology. Powered by a single, real-time data set and embedded AI, Ridgeline helps firms automate complexity, accelerate collaboration, and deliver tailored client experiences at scale, without added headcount or risk. Ridgeline is headquartered in Lake Tahoe, with offices in New York, Reno, and the Bay Area, and is recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by Frost & Sullivan as a “Technology Innovation Leader,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.” Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace. Ridgeline processes the information you submit in connection with your application in accordance with the [Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement](https://www.ridgelineapps.com/legal/candidate-privacy-policy). Please review the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement in full to understand our privacy practices and contact us with any questions. ## Compensation and 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, 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](https://www.ridgelineapps.com/about/careers) for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits. #LI-Hybrid ## About Ridgeline ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ridgeline is an AI-native industry cloud platform purpose-built for investment management, unifying front, middle, and back office workflows in a single system. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed) - **Headquarters**: Incline Village (Lake Tahoe), Nevada, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available (founded by Dave Duffield after his tenure at Workday and PeopleSoft) - **Founders**: Dave Duffield (Founder and Chairman) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Investment management technology / Fintech - **Target customers**: B2B – investment management firms (asset managers, hedge funds, etc.) - **Mission/purpose**: Give investment managers a competitive advantage with modern technology purpose-built for the industry, combining data, workflows, and AI in one platform. ## Products & Services All offerings are part of a single cloud-native SaaS platform: - **Ridgeline Platform**: A unified front-to-back system with modules for portfolio construction, trading, compliance, reconciliation, portfolio accounting, reporting, client engagement, revenue management, and workflow management. - **Ridgeline Intelligence**: AI-powered capabilities including agentic digital coworkers that automate repetitive tasks, natural language querying of data, and embedded analytics. - **Reconciliation Engine**: Automated start-of-day reconciliation against a trusted custodial data network. - **Electronic Trading**: Integration with NYFIX, dark pools, and broker algorithms; post-trade dashboard for CTM/local matches and FIX allocation status. - **Compliance**: Pre- and post-trade compliance engine configurable at firm, account, and regulatory levels. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Over 400 employees (as of mid-2026); funding rounds not disclosed - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; board includes Dave Duffield and other executives. Platform integrates with NYFIX and major custodians/brokers. - **Growth Signals**: Expanded from founding team to 400+ employees across four US offices + remote; rebranded to ridgeline.ai to signal AI-native evolution; continuous product launches (AI workflows, intelligence features in June 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native platform** built from the ground up in the public cloud (not retrofitted legacy tech). - **Single source of truth** – one platform for front, middle, and back office eliminates data silos. - **Domain expertise** – founded by enterprise software veterans (PeopleSoft, Workday) who understand complex operational workflows. - **Real-time data and embedded intelligence** directly in the flow of work, reducing manual effort and risk. ## Strategic Focus - Deepening AI capabilities: Ridgeline Intelligence, agentic coworkers, and automated reconciliation. - Expanding the platform’s breadth to cover more investment management workflows. - Attracting top engineering and domain talent to maintain competitive edge. - Building a strong partner ecosystem (custodians, brokers, data providers). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High agency, growth mindset, bias towards action, “brilliant jerks not welcome.” Emphasis on trust, transparency, and solving hard problems. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in Incline Village (NV), Reno (NV), San Ramon (CA), New York (NY); select remote roles available. - **Perks & Benefits** (from careers page): - Unlimited vacation - $0 premiums for employee-only medical, dental, vision - 12-week paid parental leave (primary and secondary caregivers) - $1,500 annual education reimbursement - $800 annual wellness reimbursement - Fertility coverage (through Progyny) - 401k with company match - Stock option grants - Dog-friendly offices - **Team**: Over 400 employees; actively hiring for engineering, sales, consulting, and support roles. ## Sources 1. [ridgeline.ai – About](https://ridgeline.ai/company/about) 2. [ridgeline.ai – Homepage](https://ridgeline.ai/) 3. [ridgeline.ai – Careers](https://ridgeline.ai/company/careers) 4. [ridgeline.ai – Leadership](https://ridgeline.ai/company/leadership) 5. 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