Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Agent Foundry
$174.5k/y-$220k/y
20 hours ago
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Summary
Ridgeline is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer for their Agent Foundry team in San Ramon, CA. The role focuses on developing AI-powered solutions for the Ridgeline platform.
About the Role
As a Staff Full-Stack Engineer, you will lead the design and development of full-stack solutions that power intelligent agents. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align agent development with business priorities, apply LLM-driven workflows, build reusable components, ensure architectural soundness, mentor engineers, and evaluate new AI capabilities.
About You
Required:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack product development.
- Demonstrated leadership on cross-team or high-impact initiatives.
- Proficiency with modern languages and frameworks, including Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, and React.
- Experience designing and building APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications (AWS preferred).
- Practical understanding of how to integrate LLMs, including prompt construction, agent orchestration, and observability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred:
- Experience working with generative AI tools like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Amazon Bedrock.
- Exposure to vector databases, structured tool-calling, or orchestration frameworks.
- Background in financial services, particularly investment management workflows.
- Contributions to AI open-source or thought leadership in applied ML.
- Experience evaluating AI model performance, cost, and quality tradeoffs.
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation.
- Educational and wellness reimbursements.
- $0 cost employee insurance plans.
- Participation in the Company Stock Plan.
Ridgeline
Ridgeline® is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded 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 an AI-powered platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry to empower business like never before. With a growing campus in Reno, and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, 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.”
San Ramon, CA