Senior Backend Engineer | Token Spend Management

Ramp
United States
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior backend engineers with experience in data integration and financial systems who can independently own complex projects and collaborate cross-functionally.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a history of independently owning complex backend projects and shipping high-quality software
    — “A track record of independently owning complex projects and shipping high-quality software”
  • Individuals experienced in building systems that process and structure external financial or usage data
    — “Experience working with external data sources or integrations where data quality and changing interfaces matter”
  • Engineers who thrive in collaborative environments and can raise the engineering bar through mentorship and reviews
    — “Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship”

Things to consider

  • The role requires managing ambiguous product problems with cross-functional teams, not just technical execution
    — “Comfort working through ambiguous product problems with cross-functional partners”
  • Relocation support is only available to NYC or SF, which may affect remote candidates’ eligibility
    — “Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in building attribution or spend control systems in your resume and interviews
    — “Experience building attribution, alerts, limits, or other systems that help customers understand and manage spend”
  • Emphasize your ability to convert complex data from external sources into clear, actionable product insights
    — “Taking the data from those integrations and converting it into helpful structures for external customers, and internal product consumers”
  • Demonstrate your ownership of full project cycles, including design, launch, and iteration
    — “Own projects from technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • reliable backend services
  • accurate data models
  • complex project ownership
Typical background
production backend systemsAPI designdata integration

Skills & requirements

Required

Backend DevelopmentAPI DesignData ModelingSystem DesignIntegration

Preferred

AI Spend ManagementInference Accounting

Stack & domain

Backend SystemsApisData ModelsAsynchronous WorkflowsUsage And Billing InformationIntegrationsData QualityReliabilityPerformanceObservabilityCustomer NeedsTechnical DecisionsCommunicationCollaborationFinanceAISubscriptions

About the role

Original posting from Ramp via Ashby

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 $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ 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 Token Spend Management team helps finance and technical teams understand and manage what they spend across AI providers and subscriptions. We are building the third pillar https://ramp.com/blog/ramp-at-44-billion-the-third-pillar of finance. The product brings provider usage and billing information together so customers can see where costs come from, attribute spend, and act on it with greater confidence.

We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to build the systems behind that experience. You’ll own substantial projects from design through production, turn data from different providers into dependable product experiences, and work with product, design, data, and engineering partners to make complex spend information useful to customers. You will be involved in key company initiatives such as inference accounting, and figuring out new and novel ways to help companies not just manage, but think about their AI Spend.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Design and build backend services and APIs that support AI spend visibility, attribution, insights, and controls
  • Build and improve integrations that ingest usage and billing information from supported providers
  • Taking the data from those integrations and converting it into helpful structures for external customers, and internal product consumers
  • Create reliable data models and processing workflows that make spend information accurate, traceable, and useful across the product
  • Own projects from technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration
  • Improve the reliability, performance, and observability of systems as customer usage and provider coverage grow
  • Partner with product, design, data, and engineering teammates to turn customer needs into practical solutions
  • Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

  • Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
  • Strong judgment about system design, data correctness, reliability, and when to keep a solution simple
  • A track record of independently owning complex projects and shipping high-quality software
  • Experience working with external data sources or integrations where data quality and changing interfaces matter
  • Comfort working through ambiguous product problems with cross-functional partners
  • Clear communication and a collaborative approach to technical decisions and feedback

NICE TO HAVES

  • Experience with usage metering, billing, spend management, or financial data products
  • Experience integrating with AI providers or other third-party usage and billing APIs
  • Experience building attribution, alerts, limits, or other systems that help customers understand and manage spend

BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL FULL-TIME RAMP EMPLOYEES (GLOBAL)

  • Flexible PTO
  • Centralized home-office equipment ordering
  • Health and wellness stipend
  • Budget for intra-office travel
  • Weekly coffee stipend

UNITED STATES

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents
  • One Medical annual membership
  • 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp
  • Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
  • Pet insurance
  • In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
  • Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)

CANADA

  • Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life
  • Life, AD&D, and disability coverage
  • Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)
  • Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)
  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay
  • Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

UNITED KINGDOM

  • Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
  • Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
  • Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option
  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

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.

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Source: Ramp careers (Ashby)

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