About Ramp

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramps all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.

Ramps investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIns Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world! They are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges. Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and enjoys owning projects from inception to scaling it in production. We value people who take pride in their work, and show an aptitude for learning quickly whether they’re familiar with our stack or not. As an early employee, you’ll be working with a nimble team of committed and talented engineers and having a large, long-term impact on technical design and engineering culture.

Our ideal candidate possesses a deep knowledge of AWS, or an equivalent cloud provider and will assist in constructing the upcoming versions of our database infrastructure. They have been accountable for deploying production databases and have experience handling scale, concurrency, fault tolerance, and idempotency. They exhibit a strong sense of ownership, promptly addressing high-urgency issues, and they also mentor and foster the growth of every other team member.

What You’ll Do

Influence and implement the next generation of Ramps database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure
Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership
Find solutions to Ramps toughest scaling, performance, and low latency problems
Participate in an On Call rotation to solve critical production events

What You Need

Minimum 4 years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred
Extensive experience in scaling and administering large-scale PostgreSQL databases.
Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems
Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform
Proficiency in an object-oriented programing language

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
- Partially covered for your dependents
- One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support for NY
Pet insurance

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.