VP of Engineering, Infrastructure

As the VP of Engineering, Infrastructure at Ridgeline, you’ll provide technical leadership to teams developing high-quality, creative business applications in a fast-moving, progressive work environment. You’ll think outside the box and add your own vision, passion, and interests to the software development lifecycle. 

As a Ridgeline engineering leader you will also help preserve our people- and team-based culture and guide the trajectory of an ambitious tech startup. Our team aims to leave a legacy in an investment management industry primed for change.

Day-to-day, you will play a critical role in helping to advance the Ridgeline platform, Engineering operations, and development and production infrastructure. Reporting to Ridgeline’s president, you  will be responsible for our Engineering Infrastructure & Operations teams and for facilitating our DevOps process, including shared services deployment, observability, quality engineering, automation, and overall infrastructure orchestration.

What will you do?

• Apply your business insight, technical acumen, and experience–in addition to engineering best practices–to teams that collaborate closely and support application teams 
• Be involved in the entire software development process, from requirements and design reviews through the implementation of a new product, expertise with agile development methodologies including CI/CD
• Champion reliability, performance, and scale of Ridgeline’s core infrastructure services,  with a keen focus on metrics and data-driven decision making
• Drive technical teams and decision making to enable continuous and successful delivery of an enterprise SaaS solution
• Coach, mentor, and inspire technical teams that are responsible for delivering high-performing, secure enterprise applications
• Engage in team and individual performance conversations and help align business objectives, key results, and career goals
• Leveraging organizational design methodology, manage resource allocations for product engineers, and track completion of deliverables for each team
• Impact a developing tech stack based on modern front-end frameworks and cost-efficient utilization of AWS back-end services
• Build a diverse team and foster a collaborative and inclusive environment
• Ensure close relationships in a multi-location organization, unifying our product and engineering teams under service ownership principles
• Collaborate deeply with key leadership partners such as the VP of Product Engineering, Chief Technology Officer, and VP of Customer Success to ensure customer delivery and satisfaction are paramount

Desired Skills and Experience

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related discipline
• 10+ years in a software engineering management position leading people, with experience supporting both managers and individual contributors and an ability to keep a pulse on people in fast-paced organization
• Entrepreneurial mindset used for dealing with ambiguity and rapid, consequential decision making
• A history of architecting and designing new products and technologies utilizing public cloud
• Ability to lead and influence both with and without authority
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and architectural patterns
• Ability to focus on short-term deliverables while maintaining a big-picture perspective
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
• Experience recruiting and evaluating talent, and building software development teams from scratch

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with investment management applications on either the buy side or sell side
• Background in design, economics, or business

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded in 2017 by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to address the unique technology challenges of an industry in need of new thinking. We are building a modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry to empower business like never before. 

Headquartered in Lake Tahoe with offices in Reno, Manhattan, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by LinkedIn as a “Top U.S. Startup,” and by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company.”

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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Compensation and Benefits 

[For New York and California Based Only]

The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $230,000-$290,000 for individuals based in New York and California. Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above. 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, 100% of 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 for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.