Senior Engineer, Backend, Vendor Management (Fintech)

Location: New York, NY (HQ), United States; hybrid. Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF may be available if needed.

Salary: $204K–$280K annually, plus equity.

Company

Ramp builds financial infrastructure for finance teams, automating payment authorization, risk detection, spend categorization, and accounting workflows for businesses.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services and APIs for vendor profiles, onboarding, and vendor portal workflows.
• Improve matching and connections between vendor records and portal accounts to reduce duplication and improve data reliability.
• Build workflows for collecting and updating vendor information, including payment and tax details, with clear permissions and accurate data handling.
• Make vendor data consistently available across procurement, bill pay, and other dependent products.
• Own projects from problem definition and technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration.
• Improve system quality through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows.
• Strong judgment regarding data integrity, access controls, reliability, and tradeoffs when evolving existing systems.
• Experience independently leading complex engineering projects from design through production.
• Product sense and curiosity about how businesses and vendors use the workflows being built.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach across engineering, product, and design.

Nice to have

• Experience with vendor management, procurement, accounts payable, or other business-finance workflows.
• Experience with identity matching, deduplication, or safely sharing data across accounts and products.
• Experience improving operational visibility and reliability in systems handling sensitive business information.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with flexible PTO, home-office equipment ordering, a health and wellness stipend, intra-office travel budget, and weekly coffee stipend.
• United States benefits include full medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee, partial dependent coverage, One Medical membership, 401(k) with employer match, fertility HRA, parental leave, pet insurance, and in-office meals and refreshments.
• Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF may be available.
• Ramp values high agency, urgency, end-to-end ownership, independent judgment, and consequential product decisions.

Hiring process

• If referred, contact the referring employee so that person can apply on your behalf.
• Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.