About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50000 companies: authorizing payments flagging risk categorizing spend and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes data-dense and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what youve built. At Ramp everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

The team owns the core experience that helps finance teams control automate and optimize company spend. We build the engine that powers Ramps card and expense workflowsfrom card issuance and spend limits to approvals policy enforcement and real-time insights.

Our systems handle billions of dollars in transactions and integrate deeply with Ramps AI platform financial infrastructure and partner ecosystems (banks ERPs HRIS).

As a backend engineer on this team youll work across product surfaces that are central to Ramps success: cards approvals spend controls and automation intelligence.

What Youll Do

• Design build and scale backend systems that power spend controls approval workflows and card transactions at massive scale

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product design and data to deliver intelligent user-first experiences for finance teams

• Integrate with Ramps internal AI platform to automate spend policy enforcement and anomaly detection

• Own complex projects end-to-end from architecture to deployment and observability

• Partner with the Product Platform and Integrations teams to ensure reliability scalability and data consistency across financial systems

• Continuously improve Ramps transaction and policy infrastructure for performance accuracy and resilience

What Were Looking For

• 6 years of software engineering experience (backend or fullstack with a backend focus)

• Strong fundamentals in backend systems and API design experience with Python Go or TypeScript is ideal

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL AWS and modern observability tooling

• Product sense: ability to balance technical quality with speed and user value

• Collaborative thoughtful communicator who thrives in high-ownership environments

Nice to Have

• Fintech or payments experience (cards reconciliation transaction processing)

• Exposure to AI- or rule-based automation systems

• Experience integrating with ERP or accounting systems

• Familiarity with security risk or compliance-driven domains

• Experience building reliable distributed systems that process large volumes of financial or transactional data

Required Experience:

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