Staff Software Engineer, Revenue Management

As a Staff Software Engineer at Ridgeline, your core responsibilities include designing and building scalable billing solutions, managing complex financial calculations, mentoring other engineers, improving performance and scalability, and collaborating with product and business teams to ensure engineering aligns with company objectives.

To qualify for the Staff Software Engineer position at Ridgeline, candidates typically need 8+ years of experience in software engineering, expertise in data structures and algorithms, proficiency with JVM languages, understanding of cloud-native applications, and automated testing. Familiarity with billing and finance domains is highly valuable.

The Staff Software Engineer at Ridgeline plays a vital role in fostering collaboration by actively participating in team discussions, mentoring junior engineers, sharing knowledge, and promoting a culture of learning and transparency, ensuring everyone is aligned towards common goals.

In the Staff Software Engineer role at Ridgeline, you will engage with various modern technologies including JVM languages like Java and Kotlin, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, SQL databases, and cloud services such as AWS ecosystems, ensuring you are well-equipped to handle scalable applications.

Ridgeline fosters a vibrant and inclusive workplace culture for the Staff Software Engineer, emphasizing collaboration, high-impact engineering, and continuous learning, while also promoting a genuine enjoyment of work with team members, underlined by core values of innovation and community engagement.

When answering, share specific projects where you developed billing systems, focusing on your role, the technology stack, and the challenges faced. Highlight your understanding of financial accuracy, precision in data management, and how you optimized processes.

Discuss your approach to code reviews, implementing automated testing, and using best practices in software development. Provide examples of how you dealt with bugs or performance issues, and how unit tests or CI/CD practices improved the overall project health.

Share a specific instance where you guided a junior engineer, focusing on the mentoring techniques you used, any technical challenges they faced, and how your mentorship contributed to their growth and the project’s success.

Talk about how you communicate with product managers and stakeholders through regular updates, feedback sessions, and aligning on priorities to ensure that technical initiatives effectively support business goals, using examples from past experiences.

Describe your systematic approach to diagnosing issues, outlining how you remain calm under pressure, analyze data, consider potential solutions, and communicate effectively with your team to implement a fix swiftly.

Discuss your hands-on experience with AWS services (like ECS, Fargate, etc.), detailing specific projects where you utilized these cloud solutions, the architectural decisions made, and how it benefited your projects in terms of scalability and performance.

Share a detailed account of a complex issue you tackled, the steps you took to identify the root cause, the solution implemented, and the impact of that solution on your team or the company’s operations.

Explain how you collaborate with different departments, emphasizing communication skills, active listening, and the importance of understanding the roles of other stakeholders to achieve project goals collectively.

Discuss your focus on system architecture, performance metrics, redundancy, and the ability to handle increased loads, providing examples of how you've addressed these considerations in prior projects.

Share what excites you about a fast-paced environment, such as the opportunity for immediate feedback, rapid iterations, innovation, and personal growth, and provide examples of how you've thrived in such settings.