PRINCIPAL, TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

Are you excited about building the foundational systems that every product engineer relies on to deliver high-quality user experiences? Are you energized by coaching engineers while shaping how an entire engineering organization builds, tests, and ships front-end software? As an Engineering Manager for UI Framework at Ridgeline, you’ll lead the team responsible for the foundation of Ridgeline’s UI platform, creating leverage for product engineers to quickly build high-quality customer experiences. You’ll guide the evolution of our front-end framework, shared services, developer tooling, build and deployment infrastructure, and lightweight backend services, with a focus on developer productivity, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability. You’ll partner across Engineering, Product, and Design to identify common challenges, establish technical direction, and make the right things easy for teams building on the platform. Our team of engineers are building with cutting-edge technologies, like Claude Code and Cursor, in a fast-moving, creative, progressive work environment.

Lead the UI Framework team responsible for the foundational systems and infrastructure that power Ridgeline’s front-end applications

Set the strategy and technical direction for Ridgeline’s UI framework while balancing long-term platform investments with the evolving needs of product engineering teams

Own and evolve the systems used to build, test, bundle, and deploy front-end code with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and developer experience

Guide the team’s expansion into lightweight backend services and infrastructure that support front-end capabilities and emerging developer workflows

Champion developer productivity through APIs, utilities, documentation, automation, CLIs, lint rules, AI workflows, and other tooling that make the platform intuitive and easy to adopt

Shape how AI changes front-end development at Ridgeline by ensuring our framework, tooling, and workflows enable engineers and AI agents to build and maintain high-quality software effectively

Establish a high bar for operational excellence so the foundational systems relied upon across Engineering are observable, reliable, performant, and maintainable

Stay close to the technical architecture and engineering work, reviewing designs and pull requests and helping the team make pragmatic, high-quality decisions

Coach, develop, and retain talented engineers while creating clear expectations, providing actionable feedback, and helping team members grow their technical, architectural, and leadership impact

Identify and attract strong engineering talent as the team grows, building a resilient, collaborative, and high-performing organization

Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Design, and Product, influencing technical direction beyond the boundaries of the team and communicating priorities and tradeoffs with transparency

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a software engineering management or technical leadership role

• Demonstrated experience building and evolving front-end architectures for large, modern web applications
• Deep understanding of core web technologies including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, and modern front-end ecosystems such as React
• Strong working knowledge of front-end build and development tooling such as Webpack, ESBuild, Bun, Jest, and related technologies
• Experience with CI/CD, build pipelines, bundling, deployment infrastructure, or other systems supporting the front-end software development lifecycle
• Experience designing platform APIs, frameworks, shared services, or developer tooling used by multiple engineering teams
• Understanding of backend and cloud infrastructure supporting modern web applications, including technologies such as Node.js, AWS, containers, and infrastructure as code
• Experience leading teams where AI is becoming an integral part of the software development lifecycle and a strong perspective on how platforms can enable AI-assisted development
• Experience balancing foundational platform investments with immediate product needs and communicating those tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders
• A track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent while building healthy, high-performing teams
• Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain/problem space.

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Prior experience leading platform, developer infrastructure, shared-services, or developer experience teams

Experience operating front-end platforms or build systems used by a large number of engineers and applications

Experience with TypeScript-first frameworks and large-scale React applications

Experience with AWS services such as Cloudfront and S3, infrastructure as code, or containerized architectures

Experience improving front-end performance, build performance, or developer feedback loops at scale

Experience designing systems and documentation for AI-assisted or agentic software development

Experience in FinTech or investment management, or building complex, data-heavy enterprise applications

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 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 Candidate Privacy Policy. In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans.