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Senior Software Engineer, Agent Foundry

Reno, NV

Are you passionate about building intelligent software systems that leverage large language models to solve complex business problems? Do you enjoy designing scalable backend platforms and full-stack experiences that bring AI-powered workflows into production? Are you excited to solve complex challenges involving agent orchestration, reliability, observability, and automation while helping shape the future of enterprise software? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help shape the future of AI-powered workflows across Ridgeline's platform. You'll build foundational services, frameworks, and integrations that enable intelligent agents to automate work, assist users, and unlock new capabilities across our products. Working closely with engineers, product managers, and AI platform specialists, you'll design and develop scalable systems that directly impact our clients and influence the future direction of the business. 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 the Ridgeline Way excites you, we’d love to meet you.

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

The impact you will have:

  • Design and develop scalable full-stack services that power AI agents across the Ridgeline platform
  • Build integrations with leading AI providers, including OpenAI and Anthropic
  • Develop agent orchestration frameworks, tool execution systems, and context management services
  • Improve evaluation frameworks that measure agent quality, reliability, safety, and performance
  • Create observability, monitoring, and debugging tools for AI-powered workflows and autonomous systems
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to identify high-impact opportunities for intelligent automation
  • Optimize platform performance, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and operational excellence for production AI workloads
  • Prototype and evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns
  • Contribute to technical design discussions and establish best practices for agent development across the company
  • Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
  • Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

What we look for:

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems, backend services, or platform infrastructure
  • Experience working with AI/ML technologies, large language models, or generative AI applications
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, and AI evaluation techniques
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or similar backend programming languages
  • Experience designing and operating scalable, cost-efficient cloud-native applications
  • Experience or strong interest in full-stack development, including frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript
  • Deep understanding of APIs, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and distributed computing
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, observability, performance optimization, and system design
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly from experimentation to production-ready solutions
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm for rapidly evolving AI technologies and their practical applications
  • Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain and problem space
  • An aptitude for problem solving
  • Ability to communicate effectively
  • Serious interest in having fun at work

Bonus:

  • Experience building production applications using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or other foundation models
  • Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool calling, function execution, or agent orchestration frameworks
  • Experience designing developer platforms, frameworks, or internal tooling
  • Familiarity with AI evaluation methodologies, benchmarking, and observability platforms
  • Experience working within fintech, enterprise SaaS, or highly regulated environments
  • Contributions to open-source AI or developer tooling projects

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.

Ridgeline processes the information you submit in connection with your application in accordance with the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement. Please review the Ridgeline Applicant Privacy Statement in full to understand our privacy practices and contact us with any questions.

Compensation and Benefits

As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product. 

In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.

 

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