Ramp - Software Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and scale backend systems for spend controls, approval workflows, and card transactions. You will work on the core experience that helps finance teams control, automate, and optimize company spend.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale backend systems for spend controls, approval workflows, and card transactions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data
• Integrate with Ramp's 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 Product Platform and Integrations teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and data consistency
• Improve transaction and policy infrastructure for performance, accuracy, and resilience

Required qualifications

• Software engineering experience (backend or fullstack with a backend focus)
• Strong fundamentals in backend systems and API design
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, AWS, and modern observability tooling
• Product sense: ability to balance technical quality with speed and user value
• Collaborative, thoughtful communicator

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

About the company

Ramp is building smart infrastructure for finance teams to automate how business spend flows. The company automates authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.