Backend Engineer, Ops

Ramp Ramp · Fintech · New York, NY · Engineering

Backend Engineer role focused on building internal tooling and infrastructure for operations teams at Ramp, a fintech company. The role involves designing and developing full-stack applications, backend services, and integrations, with a specific emphasis on leveraging AI tooling to automate workflows, enhance productivity, and improve decision-making within these internal systems. The position requires strong software engineering experience, backend architecture knowledge, and demonstrated aptitude with AI technologies, particularly LLMs, to solve business problems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build full-stack internal applications and tools that empower operations teams to work more efficiently and deliver exceptional customer experiences
  2. Develop robust backend services and APIs that power internal tooling, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
  3. Build integrations with third-party platforms like Retool, Zendesk, and other operational systems to create seamless workflows
  4. Leverage AI tooling and capabilities to build intelligent automation, enhance operator productivity, and improve decision-making within internal tools
  5. Create data-driven features and analytics that provide operations teams with actionable insights and improved visibility

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production applications
  • Strong proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or similar
  • Experience building full-stack applications with modern frameworks (React, Next.js, or similar for frontend)
  • Solid understanding of backend architecture, API design, and database systems (PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.)
  • Demonstrated aptitude for working with AI technologies, including experience integrating LLMs, building AI-powered features, or applying AI to solve business problems
  • Experience building internal tools or working closely with non-technical stakeholders to understand and solve their problems
  • Strong product sense and user empathy, with ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and modern DevOps practices
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with operations, product, and engineering teams
  • Strong sense of ownership and bias toward action, with ability to move quickly and iterate based on feedback

Nice to have

  • Experience with platforms like Retool, Zendesk, or similar internal tooling platforms is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • high agency
  • high urgency
  • slope over intercept
  • owns problems end to end
  • consequential decisions
  • build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions
  • strong sense of ownership
  • owning projects from inception to scaling them in production
  • take pride in their work
  • aptitude for learning quickly
  • large, long-term impact on technical design and engineering culture
  • intentionally pushing to use AI to automate workflows end-to-end
  • reducing manual toil
  • standardizing patterns
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production applications
  • Demonstrated aptitude for working with AI technologies
  • Strong product sense and user empathy
  • Strong sense of ownership and bias toward action
  • ability to move quickly and iterate based on feedback

Other signals

  • Leverage AI tooling and capabilities to build intelligent automation
  • Demonstrated aptitude for working with AI technologies, including experience integrating LLMs, building AI-powered features, or applying AI to solve business problems
  • Ramp is intentionally pushing to use AI to automate workflows end-to-end