Ridgeline is looking to build and scale robust, secure, and intuitive API platforms that empower developers within their ecosystem and for external customers, leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to enhance productivity and velocity.
Requirements
- Deep expertise with cloud-native distributed systems (AWS preferred), secure RESTful API design, and API management/gateway solutions (Kong or equivalent)
- Proven experience setting API design standards and delivering production-grade APIs documented with OpenAPI spec
- Strong understanding of API reliability, monitoring, and operational best practices
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, WebSockets, and authentication/authorization models for APIs
- Practical experience with modern AI frameworks that support software development
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of a Kong-based API Gateway hosting thousands of highly available, secure, and scalable APIs
- Define and codify API design standards that elevate internal, external, and agentic developer usability
- Identify and eliminate friction in API development through simplification, automation, and tooling that improve developer velocity and experience
- Establish reliability and observability practices to monitor and ensure API performance, availability, and security
- Develop and maintain API documentation using automated OpenAPI spec generation and validation tools
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and provide thoughtful peer reviews that foster growth across the team
- Leverage AI tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Claude Code to accelerate development, improve code quality, and inspire innovative solutions
Other
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of large-scale platform or product APIs
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills with an inclusive approach to technical leadership
- Creative problem-solving mindset and passion for helping others succeed
- Experience contributing to or defining API product strategy
- Exposure to financial services or investment management domain
