Senior FinTech Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Accounting

Visa Hunt; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; 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 redesigning how businesses manage spend - and the backbone of that vision is clean, auditable, real-time accounting infrastructure. The Accounting Engineering team is building the systems that ensure every transaction and automation maps back to accurate financial statements.

We’re looking for a mid-to-senior level backend engineer who thrives in complex systems, cares deeply about data integrity, and wants to shape how finance teams interact with modern software.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience in fintech or transactional systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems with high data integrity requirements.
• Strong understanding of system design, reliability engineering, and service observability.
• Fluent in Python or a comparable modern backend language.
• Comfort working closely with accounting teams and product stakeholders to translate business needs into clean code.
• Passion for building infrastructure balancing precision, performance, and extensibility.

Responsibilities

• Own backend services that power Ramp’s accounting platform, syncs, and rules engine.
• Build scalable systems that process millions of transactions across card, bill pay, reimbursements, treasury, and more
• Lay the technical foundation for AI agents to suggest and enforce accounting categorizations
• Improve internal developer tooling and interfaces to accelerate our team
• Uphold the highest standards around correctness, observability, and auditability

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

System design

Python

Cross-functional

Infrastructure

Job description

Ramp is redesigning how businesses manage spend - and the backbone of that vision is clean, auditable, real-time accounting infrastructure. The Accounting Engineering team is building the systems that ensure every transaction and automation maps back to accurate financial statements.

We’re looking for a mid-to-senior level backend engineer who thrives in complex systems, cares deeply about data integrity, and wants to shape how finance teams interact with modern software.