Software Engineer, Backend, Growth
$200k - $310k • New York, NY (HQ) • FullTime
Posted 5mo ago
Job Location
New York, NY (HQ)
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Ramp is seeking a product-minded backend engineer to join their Growth team, focusing on building the AI-native infrastructure for finance teams. This role will be instrumental in developing systems that automate and enhance customer-facing experiences for Go-to-Market and Product Growth teams. You will work on marketing-led products, including AI-powered systems for campaign asset creation, workflow automation, and personalized customer experiences across various channels. A key focus will be on building Ramp's incentives platform, ensuring safe targeting, authorization, distribution, and measurement of incentives, while combining marketer-friendly workflows with robust financial controls and closed-loop measurement. This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of product engineering, AI, data, marketing, and financial infrastructure, translating ambiguous workflows into durable systems.
Responsibilities
- Build backend systems powering AI-native marketing and growth products.
- Develop shared incentives infrastructure for eligibility, targeting, policies, budgets, authorization, issuance, redemption, and outcome tracking.
- Enable personalized content and offers across various channels using shared customer and campaign context.
- Design reliable orchestration for long-running tasks, approvals, scheduling, retries, human intervention, and safe AI or financial execution.
- Connect marketing actions and incentive spend to measurable activation, conversion, retention, and revenue outcomes.
- Partner across departments to own systems from discovery through production adoption and iteration.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production backend systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python or another modern server-side language.
- Track record of owning production services, APIs, data models, and distributed or event-driven workflows.
- Strong product judgment and system-design fundamentals, including data modeling, asynchronous processing, reliability, testing, and observability.
- Experience building governed systems involving permissions, policies, budgets, balances, entitlements, or financial actions.
- Experience applying AI to real product workflows or strong interest in doing so, understanding where deterministic controls and human approval are required.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and a bias toward rapidly shipping measurable user and business outcomes.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents (US)
- One Medical annual membership (US)
- 401(k), including employer match (US)
- Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year) (US)
- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay (US)
- Pet insurance (US)
- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more (US)
- Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed) (US)
- Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life (Canada)