Hybrid Backend Engineer, Accounting

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Backend Engineer developing scalable accounting systems for AI-driven finance platform. Owning backend services and improving financial data accessibility while upholding auditability standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own backend services that power Ramp’s accounting platform, syncs, and rules engine.
  • Build scalable, low-latency systems that process millions of transactions across card, bill pay, reimbursements, treasury, and more
  • Extend our ledger infrastructure to support richer event tracing and automated reconciliation
  • Lay the technical foundation for AI agents to suggest and enforce accounting categorizations
  • Improve internal developer tooling and interfaces to make financial data more accessible and actionable
  • Uphold the highest standards around correctness, observability, and auditability

Requirements

  • 3+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in fintech, accounting tech, or transactional systems
  • Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems with high data integrity requirements
  • Strong understanding of system design, reliability engineering, and service observability
  • Fluent in Python or a comparable modern backend language
  • Comfort working closely with accounting teams and product stakeholders to translate business needs into clean code
  • Passion for building infrastructure that balances precision, performance, and extensibility

Benefits

  • 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 $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

Job title

Backend Engineer, Accounting

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$180,000 - $259,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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