172K–280K USD / year
Software Engineer, Backend, Comms Platform
BackendRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-09
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About this role
Build and operate core components of Ramp’s communications platform, which delivers transactional messages across email, SMS, push, and workplace chat. Own an area such as delivery integrations, communication preferences, or platform reliability, and help ensure messages reach the right people reliably and at scale.
About the company
Ramp is a financial automation platform that provides companies with tools to manage expenses, optimize procurement, and improve financial workflows. It serves businesses looking to streamline their financial processes and enhance visibility into spending.
The team
Communications Platform team
Stack
EmailSMSPush notificationsSlackMicrosoft TeamsWhatsApp
What you'll do
- Own a core platform area from technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration.
- Build messaging-channel and delivery-provider integrations.
- Design reliable, idempotent delivery workflows with safe retries and delivery confirmation.
- Build user and administrator communication preferences and controls.
- Improve platform abstractions, developer tooling, reliability, performance, and observability.
- Guide technical direction and contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
What we're looking for
- Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a system or product area and its technical direction.
- Strong system-design judgment around reliability, idempotency, and correctness in high-volume distributed systems.
- Product sense and ability to balance delivery speed with quality.
- Clear communication and collaborative technical decision-making.
Nice to have
- Experience building notification, messaging, or communications platforms.
- Experience integrating with messaging providers or channel APIs such as Twilio, SendGrid, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or WhatsApp.
- Experience building internal platforms or shared services for multiple engineering teams.
- Experience scaling high-volume, event-driven, or queue-based systems.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Equity and bonus
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with employer match
- Parental leave of up to 16 weeks at 100% pay for birthing and bonding, or 8 weeks for bonding only
- Home-office equipment ordering and health and wellness stipend
- Fertility HRA of up to $10,000 per year