Senior Backend Engineer - Global Payments Platform

Ramp Corp.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Home-office equipment

Health stipend

Intra-office travel budget

Weekly coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp is building the Money Platform's international capabilities to power expansion into global markets, enabling cross-border payments, multi-currency accounting, and regulatory compliance across regions.

The role focuses on launching new markets and scaling existing ones, delivering reliable, scalable payment infrastructure and seamless integrations with international banking rails.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience in high-scale production environments.
• Strong systems design skills and ability to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable solutions.
• Experience in fast-moving environments with ownership and high ambiguity.
• Comfort with distributed systems, performance optimization and production reliability.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across compliance, product and ops.

Responsibilities

• Build payment infrastructure that works 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)
• Take on 0-1 launches and 1-N scaling of markets concurrently
• Collaborate with compliance, product, ops and partners to meet regional requirements
• Own problems end-to-end—from architecture to production reliability

Skills

Backend engineering

System design

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Job description

Ramp is building the Money Platform's international capabilities to power expansion into global markets, enabling cross-border payments, multi-currency accounting, and regulatory compliance across regions.

The role focuses on launching new markets and scaling existing ones, delivering reliable, scalable payment infrastructure and seamless integrations with international banking rails.