Senior Backend Engineer - Payments & ERP Integrations

Ramp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Centralized home-office equipment

Health and wellness stipend

Budget for intra-office travel

Weekly coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a senior backend engineer to own core pieces of the receivables system, including invoicing, collections, payments, cash application, and accounting sync. You’ll design, implement, and ship backend components that handle high-stakes financial data with reliability and scale.

You will own projects end to end—from problem Definition and design through production launch, monitoring, and iteration—collaborating with product and design to transform complex finance workflows into

Qualifications

• Product sense: focus on the customer problem, not just the ticket.
• Experience designing and operating production backend systems, including APIs and data models.
• Strong system design judgment balancing speed, correctness, reliability, and simplicity.
• Track record of independently owning complex projects and shipping high-quality software.
• Strong communication skills and collaborative decision making.

Responsibilities

• Build the payment-matching systems that automatically apply incoming ACH, wire, card, and check payments to the right invoices, even when payment details are incomplete or inconsistent.
• Design accurate data models where every dollar is traceable from invoice to payment to general ledger.
• Build two-way integrations with ERPs like NetSuite and QuickBooks that stay consistent through retries, partial failures, and edits on either side.
• Build collections workflows that help businesses get paid faster without hurting their customer relationships.
• Own projects from problem definition and technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration.
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.

Skills

Product sense

Backend systems

System design

Ownership of projects

Communication skills

Job description

Ramp is seeking a senior backend engineer to own core pieces of the receivables system, including invoicing, collections, payments, cash application, and accounting sync. You’ll design, implement, and ship backend components that handle high-stakes financial data with reliability and scale.

You will own projects end to end—from problem Definition and design through production launch, monitoring, and iteration—collaborating with product and design to transform complex finance workflows into