Staff Platform Architect, Enterprise Frameworks

Ridgeline; United States; Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Educational reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Stock options

Health insurance

Job summary

Ridgeline is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and evolve extensible enterprise platform frameworks used by product teams daily. You will drive architecture decisions for shared infrastructure, including data models, APIs, and event-driven workflows, while guiding multiple engineering teams.

You will lead efforts to balance long-term platform direction with immediate delivery, mentor engineers, and apply AI-assisted tooling across the SDLC to accelerate research, prototyping, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of architecting and delivering shared platforms, infrastructure, or frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve extensible enterprise platform frameworks that product teams build on top of.
• Lead architecture discussions for data models, APIs, event-driven workflows, and operational patterns.
• Collaborate across Platform, Product, and other engineering teams to solve high-impact challenges.
• Mentor engineers across teams on architecture, reliability, and maintainability.
• Support production services and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Java/Kotlin/Python

PostgreSQL

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Kubernetes

Spark

AWS

Jest

Pytest

Cypress

Job description

Ridgeline is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and evolve extensible enterprise platform frameworks used by product teams daily. You will drive architecture decisions for shared infrastructure, including data models, APIs, and event-driven workflows, while guiding multiple engineering teams.

You will lead efforts to balance long-term platform direction with immediate delivery, mentor engineers, and apply AI-assisted tooling across the SDLC to accelerate research, prototyping, and