Software Engineer, Backend, Growth

Ramp

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York City, NY
Salary
$200,000–$310,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
167 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $255k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $132,962–$215,112 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $174k 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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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Backend, Growth

The Software Engineer, Backend, Growth joins the team building an AI-native platform for marketing and product growth. This role involves developing backend systems, APIs, and data models to power creative production, lifecycle marketing, and cross-channel orchestration. You will build shared infrastructure for incentives, including systems for eligibility, targeting, budgets, and financial authorization. Key responsibilities include designing reliable orchestration for long-running work, managing asynchronous processing, and integrating AI into product workflows with deterministic controls. The role requires proficiency in Python or other modern server-side languages, with experience in distributed systems, data modeling, and observability. You will solve complex problems by connecting marketing actions to measurable outcomes while building governed systems for permissions, policies, and financial operations across various channels including email, sales outreach, and in-product experiences.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build backend systems for AI-native marketing products including creative production and cross-channel orchestration.
  • Develop shared incentives infrastructure for eligibility, targeting, budget controls, and outcome tracking.
  • Enable personalized content and offers across email, sales workflows, and in-product experiences.
  • Design reliable orchestration for long-running work, approvals, scheduling, and safe financial execution.
  • Connect marketing actions and incentive spend to measurable activation, conversion, and revenue outcomes.
  • Build data models, APIs, and integrations to allow marketers and AI agents to execute complex workflows.

What we're looking for

  • 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 a strong interest in doing so.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and a bias toward rapidly shipping measurable user and business outcomes.
  • Experience building incentive, rewards, loyalty, payments, ledger, or financial-authorization systems (preferred).

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