Senior Backend Engineer, Global Payments Platform

Apply; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Virtual GP & at-home care

Workplace pension

Parental leave

Job summary

Ramp is building the infrastructure that powers international payments and multi-currency operations for a global customer base. The Money Platform, International team launches new markets from 0 to 1 and scales them, handling cross-border payments and banking rails to empower other Ramp teams.

The role focuses on designing scalable payment systems, ensuring reliability, and collaborating with compliance, product, and partners to meet regional requirements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering in high-scale production environments.
• Strong systems design skills with ability to design reliable, maintainable solutions.
• Experience in fast-moving environments with high ambiguity and independent ownership.
• Comfort with distributed systems, performance optimization and production reliability.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build payment infrastructure across multiple countries, currencies, and regulatory regimes.
• Design multi-currency accounting and reconciliation systems at scale.
• Integrate with international banking systems and payment rails (SEPA, BACS, SWIFT).
• Tackle 0-1 and 1-N work, launching new markets and scaling existing ones.
• Collaborate with compliance, product, ops and external partners to meet regional requirements.
• Own problems end-to-end from architecture to production reliability to partner integrations.

Skills

5+ years backend/Platform engineering

System design

Distributed systems

Ambiguity ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Ramp is building the infrastructure that powers international payments and multi-currency operations for a global customer base. The Money Platform, International team launches new markets from 0 to 1 and scales them, handling cross-border payments and banking rails to empower other Ramp teams.

The role focuses on designing scalable payment systems, ensuring reliability, and collaborating with compliance, product, and partners to meet regional requirements.