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Ramp is building smart infrastructure for finance teams, automating how over $275B in annualized spend flows through 85,000+ companies. The company handles payment authorization, risk flagging, spend categorization, and book closing at scale.
The Accounting team builds systems that carry accounting context across Ramp's products, helping customers categorize and reconcile activity while keeping records in sync. This role is a Senior Backend Engineer focused on building reliable, accurate accounting workflows.
You will design and build backend services, APIs, and data models supporting accounting workflows across Ramp's products. Key responsibilities include making financial data accurate, traceable, and resilient as transactions move through coding, reconciliation, and sync; improving reliability and visibility of workflows spanning Ramp and customers' accounting systems, including failure handling; partnering with product, design, and engineering teams to understand finance team needs and translate them into technical designs; owning substantial projects from design through implementation, launch, monitoring, and iteration; and raising the engineering bar through thoughtful design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
This is an individual contributor role with significant scope and influence. You will work on complex, high-stakes problems where data accuracy and system reliability directly impact customer success.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
- Strong system design judgment, especially around data correctness, reliability, and keeping complex systems understandable
- Track record of independently owning complex projects and shipping high-quality software
- Ability to investigate problems across services and data flows and turn learnings into durable improvements
- Clear communication and collaborative approach to technical decisions and feedback
NICE TO HAVES:
- Experience with accounting, payments, spend management, or other financial data products
- Familiarity with accounting concepts such as coding, reconciliation, or the general ledger
- Experience building integrations or data workflows that keep information consistent across systems
