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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, Reporting Engine - **Company:** RIDGELINERS, LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $153,000.0 - $191,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Data Infrastructure, Data Retrieval, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Application Data, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Concurrency, Apache Spark, Backend, Kotlin, Event Driven Architecture, Build Management, Low Latency, Data Analytics, Front End Software Development, GPT, Serverless Computing - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-reporting-engine-ridgeline-8717805 ## About the Role * 6+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale backend or distributed systems. * Strong programming experience in Kotlin, Java, Python, or similar backend languages. * Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including system design, APIs, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization. * Experience designing and operating scalable cloud-native services (AWS preferred). * Experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems with strong reliability requirements. * Experience designing application data models and building services on top of relational and distributed storage systems. * Familiarity with asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures. * Ability to influence architecture and drive technical decisions across teams. * Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills. * Curiosity, ownership, and a desire to continuously learn and improve. Nice to have: * Experience building reporting, query execution, or analytics infrastructure platforms. * Familiarity with distributed query engines or compute frameworks such as Trino, Spark, or similar technologies. * Experience working on systems with strict correctness, auditability, and reliability requirements. * Experience in fintech, investment management, or financial data systems. * Familiarity with React or modern frontend technologies. * Experience using AI-assisted engineering workflows and developer tooling. ## Description JobPosting MonetaryAmount USD QuantitativeValue 210000 153000 YEAR 2026-07-08T22:55:09Z Are you passionate about building large-scale backend systems that power mission-critical reporting and data-intensive workflows? Do you enjoy solving deep technical challenges around distributed systems, performance, scalability, and reliability? Are you excited by the opportunity to shape the architecture of a next-generation reporting and query platform used across a complex financial ecosystem? If so, we invite you to join Ridgeline's Reporting team. The Ridgeline Reporting Engine team builds and operates the core infrastructure behind reporting, query execution, and data retrieval across the platform. Our systems power both customer-facing reporting experiences and internal analytics. Your work will transform complex financial data into reliable, high-performance reporting systems that enable faster, more informed decision-making for investment managers. We are evolving the next generation of our distributed reporting and query engine, focused on correctness, performance, scalability, and operational excellence. We embrace tools like Claude Code, Cursor AI, and ChatGPT to accelerate development and reduce friction, allowing engineers to focus on high-leverage problem solving, system design, and innovation. We're looking for engineers who enjoy diving deep technically, influencing architecture, mentoring others, and building production-grade platforms that scale with the business. 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 this excites you, we'd love to meet you. You must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. The impact you will make: * Design and build scalable backend services that power reporting, query execution, and data-intensive product workflows. * Drive architectural decisions across distributed systems, APIs, execution frameworks, and storage/query layers. * Lead technical initiatives focused on platform scalability, performance optimization, reliability, and operational excellence. * Build and evolve systems that handle compute- and IO-intensive workloads with strong correctness and auditability requirements. * Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver performant and reliable customer-facing capabilities. * Improve observability, resiliency, debugging workflows, and operational tooling across production systems. * Help shape the evolution of our next-generation distributed reporting and query platform. * Contribute to engineering best practices around software design, testing, maintainability, and production readiness. * Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and raise the technical bar across the organization. * Dive deep into ambiguous technical problems while maintaining a strategic long-term perspective. ## Related Videos - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Kotlin Multiplatform - True power of native code reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/4-kotlin-multiplatform-true-power-of-native-code-reuse) - [ Evaluating AI models for code comprehension](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1462-evaluating-ai-models-for-code-comprehension) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Why Kotlin is the better Java and how you can start using it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/661-why-kotlin-is-the-better-java-and-how-you-can-start-using-it) - [Swapping a Data Warehouse at Runtime: Zero-Downtime Migration Without Changing a Single Client](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100311-swapping-a-data-warehouse-at-runtime-zero-downtime-migration-without-changing-a-single-client) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers)