Senior Backend Engineer, Bill Pay & AI Automation

Ramp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Home-office equipment ordering

Health and wellness stipend

Intra-office travel budget

Weekly coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a senior backend engineer to own a core Bill Pay subsystem. You will design, build, and operate payment execution, bill intake, AI-powered extraction, approvals, and accounting sync with cross-functional teams across product, design, and payments.

You will lead data model design, ensure correctness and reliability at scale, and create robust integrations with ERP/accounting systems. This role offers relocation support to major US tech hubs and a strong emphasis on engineering

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems.
• Track record of owning a system or product area end to end.
• Strong judgment on correctness, idempotency, and reliability in financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and evolution of a core Bill Pay subsystem from design to launch and monitoring.
• Build payment workflows across ACH, checks, cards, and international rails with safeguards.
• Develop AI-powered AP automation like invoice extraction and auto-coding.
• Design data models for bills, approvals, payments, and credits.
• Create reliable ERP/accounting integrations with retry and edit handling.
• Improve reliability, performance, and observability for growing volumes.
• Drive technical direction and mentor teammates through reviews.

Skills

Backend systems

APIs

System design

Ownership mindset

Reliability & correctness

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Ramp is seeking a senior backend engineer to own a core Bill Pay subsystem. You will design, build, and operate payment execution, bill intake, AI-powered extraction, approvals, and accounting sync with cross-functional teams across product, design, and payments.

You will lead data model design, ensure correctness and reliability at scale, and create robust integrations with ERP/accounting systems. This role offers relocation support to major US tech hubs and a strong emphasis on engineering