Are you passionate about building lightning-fast user experiences that scale across complex enterprise applications? Do you enjoy uncovering hidden performance bottlenecks in frontend rendering, API interactions, and critical user workflows? Are you excited to partner across product and platform engineering teams to improve responsiveness, reliability, and real-world customer experience through data-driven optimization? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.
As a Performance Engineer at Ridgeline, you’ll improve application and frontend performance across our modern investment management platform by optimizing client-side behavior, measuring real-user experience, and strengthening application observability. You’ll work closely with engineering teams to analyze rendering pipelines, reduce inefficient service interactions, and improve the speed and responsiveness of mission-critical user journeys. Our team of engineers are building with cutting-edge technologies—like Claude Code and Cursor—in a fast-moving, creative, progressive work environment.
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!
The impact you will have
- Analyze frontend rendering behavior and optimize application responsiveness across complex workflows
- Identify inefficient API usage patterns, excessive client-server communication, and performance bottlenecks
- Measure and improve real-user performance metrics across critical customer experiences
- Build and enhance tools for synthetic testing, browser instrumentation, and client-side observability
- Partner with product engineering teams to improve the performance and reliability of high-impact user journeys
- Develop scalable approaches for performance profiling, monitoring, and regression detection
- Collaborate across engineering teams to establish frontend performance best practices and standards
- Investigate production performance issues and drive root-cause resolution with urgency and ownership
- Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
What we look for
- 5+ years of experience in frontend engineering, application engineering, or performance engineering
- Strong understanding of browser rendering pipelines, frontend optimization techniques, and web performance fundamentals
- Experience building applications with React or similar frontend frameworks
- Familiarity with real-user monitoring, performance profiling, and observability tooling
- Experience analyzing network behavior, API interactions, and client-side performance bottlenecks
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in modern web application environments
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly across engineering and product teams
- Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain/problem space
- An aptitude for problem solving
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Serious interest in having fun at work
Bonus
- Experience with synthetic monitoring or browser automation frameworks
- Familiarity with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures
- Experience improving performance in enterprise SaaS applications
- Knowledge of accessibility and frontend quality best practices
About Ridgeline
Ridgeline is headquartered in Lake Tahoe, with offices in New York, Reno, the Bay Area, Dublin Ireland. 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.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in frontend engineering, application engineering, or performance engineering
- Strong understanding of browser rendering pipelines and frontend optimization techniques
- Experience building applications with React or similar frontend frameworks
- Familiarity with real-user monitoring and performance profiling
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in modern web application environments
Ridgeline Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ridgeline and has not been reviewed or approved by Ridgeline.
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Affordable Benefits — Employee-only medical, dental, and vision coverage is offered at no cost, lowering out-of-pocket expenses. Wellness and education stipends further enhance the overall value of the package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are provided to all employees, creating broad-based ownership. This makes equity a meaningful pillar of total compensation.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all caregivers alongside fertility coverage indicates strong support for family-building. These benefits reduce logistical and financial strain during major life events.
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What We Do
Ridgeline has a simple mission: partner with investment management firms to modernize their software. Founded by software industry entrepreneur Dave Duffield, Ridgeline is headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada.
