Senior Backend Engineer — Accounting & Financial Data Systems

Ramp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Home-office equipment ordering

Health and wellness stipend

Budget for intra-office travel

Weekly coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain backend services that power accounting, payments, and reconciliation workflows. You will design APIs, data models, and asynchronous processes, ensuring correctness and reliability across Ramp’s products.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners to translate finance team needs into scalable technical solutions, own substantial projects from design to production, and mentor teammates to elevate engineering

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems.
• Strong system design judgment around data correctness and reliability.
• Track record of owning complex projects end-to-end.
• Ability to investigate problems across services and data flows.
• Clear communication and collaborative decision making.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services, APIs, and data models for Ramp's products.
• Ensure financial data is accurate, traceable, and resilient across workflows.
• Improve reliability and observability of cross-system workflows.
• Partner with product and engineering to translate needs into technical designs.
• Own substantial projects from design through launch and iteration.
• Lead code reviews and mentor teammates to raise engineering bar.

Skills

Backend architecture

APIs

Data models

System design

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Mentorship

Job description

Ramp is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain backend services that power accounting, payments, and reconciliation workflows. You will design APIs, data models, and asynchronous processes, ensuring correctness and reliability across Ramp’s products.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners to translate finance team needs into scalable technical solutions, own substantial projects from design to production, and mentor teammates to elevate engineering