Senior Backend Engineer, Accounting

Ramp

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYSan Francisco, CA
Salary
$172,000–$280,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $156,081–$225,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $226k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Ramp

Ramp is a corporate spend management platform providing corporate cards, expense management, and accounts payable automation tools to help businesses control spending and operate more efficiently. Industry: Financial Technology & Corporate Spend Management

Ramp currently has 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $189,000–$325,000 across 21 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Backend Engineer, Accounting

The Senior Backend Engineer joins the Accounting team to build systems that carry accounting context across products, helping customers categorize and reconcile activity while keeping records in sync. You will design and build backend services, APIs, and data models to support accounting workflows, ensuring financial data remains accurate, traceable, and resilient as transactions move through coding and reconciliation. Your daily work involves owning complex projects from design through production, improving the reliability of workflows spanning Ramp and customer accounting systems, and providing mentorship through code reviews. You must possess experience in production backend systems, asynchronous workflows, and system design judgment regarding data correctness. This role solves the technical problem of turning everyday spending into accurate books by managing the flow of transactions into the general ledger.

What does a Backend Engineer earn?

Median $206000 from 33 postings across 18 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build backend services, APIs, and data models to support accounting workflows.
  • Ensure financial data remains accurate, traceable, and resilient during coding and reconciliation.
  • Improve the reliability and visibility of workflows between Ramp and customer accounting systems.
  • Translate finance team needs into practical technical designs with product and engineering partners.
  • Own complex projects from initial design and implementation through launch and monitoring.
  • Conduct thoughtful design reviews and code reviews to raise the engineering bar.
  • Mentor other engineers and provide feedback on technical decisions.

What we're looking for

  • Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Strong system design judgment regarding data correctness, reliability, and maintaining understandable complex systems.
  • A track record of independently owning complex projects and shipping high-quality software.
  • Ability to investigate problems across services and data flows to create durable improvements.
  • Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to technical decisions and feedback.
  • Experience with accounting, payments, spend management, or other financial data products (preferred).
  • Familiarity with accounting concepts such as coding, reconciliation, or the general ledger (preferred).
  • Experience building integrations or data workflows that keep information consistent across systems (preferred).

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