About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

Ramp's Developer API team powers the programmatic interfaces for reading and writing to Ramp, including our MCP server and agentic interfaces. Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building scalable backend systems, a strong sense of ownership, and enjoys driving projects from inception through to customer delivery and scaling to 10s of thousands of businesses.
Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!

What You'll Do

• Build and operate Ramp’s core public APIs and platform primitives that power integrations, with a high bar for reliability, correctness, and developer experience.

• Ship AI-first platform capabilities that enable safe automation and agentic workflows (clean interfaces, permissions/guardrails, evaluation/monitoring where needed).

• Lead design and execution of complex backend projects end-to-end (architecture, implementation, rollout, monitoring) in Python, Temporal, and Postgres.

• Mentor engineers and provide both technical and non-technical leadership to drive the team and business goals forward.

What You Need

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience preferred

• Experience building APIs is nice to have

• Strong ownership over delivering technical and business outcomes

• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you

  • Partially covered for your dependents

  • One Medical annual membership

• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)

• Flexible PTO

• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

• Parental Leave

• Unlimited AI token usage

• Pet insurance

• Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees

• Health and Wellness stipend

• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

• Budget for intra-office travel

• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.