Offer summary

Qualifications:

At least 7 years of backend engineering experience., Minimum of 3 years in technical leadership or management roles., Proven track record of delivering high-quality products at scale., Strong understanding of scalable backend systems and modern tech stacks like Python, Temporal, and Postgres..

Key responsibilities:

Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers.

Collaborate on technical vision and lead complex projects.

Improve engineering processes and tools for scalability and efficiency.

Engage with peers and managers for feedback and team development.

Job description

About Ramp

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 40,000 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 $80 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

Ramp is on a mission to build the best engineering team. Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building scalable backend systems, a strong sense of ownership, and enjoys driving projects from inception to scaling them in production. Our tech stack currently involves Python, Temporal, and Postgres.

Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!

In this role, you will be an advocate and coach for your team while solving various backend challenges, doing hands-on coding, and scaling product success at a fast-paced start-up. Our ideal candidate leverages their leadership, technical expertise, and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a technical leader, you’ll help establish the team’s vision and see it through.

We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of backend engineering with a passion for performance and scale. You should also be strong at identifying and building the right abstractions to support other engineers. Engineering Management or Tech Leadership experience is a plus.

Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!

What You’ll Do

Help lead (and — if you’re up for it — manage) a team of highly skilled backend engineers while coaching, mentoring, and advocating for them
Collaborate on our technical vision
Lead discussions and implementation of multiple complex projects
Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team
Proactively engage with your peers and managers to provide and solicit feedback
Recruit, interview and develop your own interview questions, while fostering the culture of excellence, velocity and humility

What You'll Need

A minimum of 7 years of backend engineering experience preferred
A minimum of 3 years of technical leadership experience leading and/or managing teams
A track record of shipping high-quality products and leading projects at scale
An ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
Alignment with Ramp’s core values of enabling businesses to grow more by spending less

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 $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support to NYC or SF
Pet insurance