Software Engineer (Accounting)
Company: Ramp
Location: New York City, NY, USA {{REMOTE}}
Salary: $168k - $275.1k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-14
About this role
- Ramp is redesigning how businesses manage spend - and the backbone of that vision is clean, auditable, real-time accounting infrastructure
- The Accounting Engineering team is building the systems that ensure every transaction and automation maps back to accurate financial statements
- We’re looking for a mid-to-senior level backend engineer who thrives in complex systems, cares deeply about data integrity, and wants to shape how finance teams interact with modern software
- You’ll help us save customers time and money and support Ramp’s transformation into the AI-powered finance platform of the future
- Own backend services that power Ramp’s accounting platform, syncs, and rules engine
- Build scalable systems that process millions of transactions across card, bill pay, reimbursements, treasury, and more
- Lay the technical foundation for AI agents to suggest and enforce accounting categorizations
- Improve internal developer tooling and interfaces to accelerate our team
- Uphold the highest standards around correctness, observability, and auditability
### Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- One Medical Membership
- 401(k) including an employer match
- Parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Relocation support to move to NYC
- WFH stipend
- Pet Insurance- Strong understanding of system design, reliability engineering, and service observability
- Comfort working closely with accounting teams and product stakeholders to translate business needs into clean code
- Fluent in Python or a comparable modern backend language
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems with high data integrity requirements
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in fintech, accounting tech, or transactional systems
- Passion for building infrastructure that balances precision, performance, and extensibility
- Familiarity with financial integrations (e.g. NetSuite, QuickBooks, Oracle)
- Background in compliance-...