Software Engineer, Backend, Comms Platform
Ramp is an AI-powered financial operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and related finance workflows.
About Ramp
Ramp is a privately held New York financial-services company founded in 2019. Its platform combines corporate cards, spend and expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and other financial-operations services. Ramp reports serving more than 70,000 companies.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will own the design and evolution of a core part of the communications platform, from design through launch and monitoring. You'll build integrations with email, SMS, push, and chat channels, design idempotent delivery workflows, build communication preferences, and improve reliability, performance, and observability while setting technical direction and mentoring.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
- Track record of owning a system or product area end to end
- Strong system design judgment around reliability, idempotency, and correctness in distributed systems
- Product sense
- Clear communication and collaboration
Responsibilities
- Own design and evolution of a core part of the communications platform
- Build and extend integrations with messaging channels and delivery providers
- Design idempotent delivery workflows that retry safely and confirm delivery
- Build communication preferences and controls
- Make the platform simple and safe for other engineers to build on
- Improve reliability, performance, and observability
- Drive technical direction through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Flexible PTO
- Home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- 100% medical, dental & vision coverage for employee
- One Medical annual membership
- 401(k) with employer match
- Fertility HRA up to $10,000 per year
- Parental leave up to 16 weeks at 100% pay
- Pet insurance
- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks
- Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF