Software Engineer | Growth Platform, Backend

About Ramp

At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it.

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 45,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100 , CNBC Disruptor 50 , and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies .

About the Role

Growth engineering builds the systems that power nearly every growth channel at Ramp. As an engineer here, you’ll own some of the most foundational problems in our growth stack: managing complex data flows, ingesting diverse sources, applying LLMs to unstructured information, and building internal platforms that scale growth across the company. You’ll partner with product, data, and design, and work directly with stakeholders across growth, sales, marketing, and finance to accelerate Ramp’s growth. This role offers the opportunity to shape Ramp’s growth engine with high ownership and direct impact.

Check out our Engineering Blog to learn more about our tech stack, mission, and values!

What You’ll Do

• Build software to grow Ramp to its next millions of users

• Build data ingestion and activation pipelines between Ramp products, business systems, external systems, and third-party data

• Architect and implement internal platforms (e.g. experimentation, incentives) that power all growth channels at Ramp

• Leverage AI for unstructured data processing, data acquisition and normalization, and growth signal derivation

• Drive business goals through experiments and metric-driven software development

• Work in a dynamic engineering team with partners in product, data, and design

What You Need

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a software development role

• Experience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and infrastructure

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly improving, start-up environment that focuses on solving problems with iterative technical solutions

• Ability to improvise and develop creative solutions when common approaches fail. Strong value of pragmatism over idealism in times of uncertainty

• Perpetual curiosity and passion for honing your craft

Nice -to-Haves

• Start up experience as a technical co/founder or early engineer

• Experience with the modern data stack - including ETL tools like Fivetran, workflow orchestrators like Airflow, and data platforms like Snowflake

• Experience with applying AI/LLMs in production use cases

• Strong perspective on engineering development cycle (system design, documentation + testing, best practices for codebase development)

• Experience building user-facing data applications

• Understanding of the tools that power marketing/sales automation, personalization, and analytics

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

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

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

• Flexible PTO

• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)

• WFH stipend to support your home office needs

• Wellness stipend

• Parental Leave

• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)

• Pet insurance

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.

Compensation

$155K – $258K • Offers Equity

The final compensation will depend on the location and level at which the candidate is hired.