2 days ago
Base Salary
$172k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design and evolution of a core communications-platform area from technical design through launch, monitoring, and iteration.
- Build and extend integrations with email, SMS, push, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other messaging channels and delivery providers.
- Design idempotent delivery workflows with safe retries and delivery confirmation to prevent duplicate sends.
- Build communication preferences and controls for users and administrators.
- Create clear abstractions, strong defaults, and developer tooling for engineers building on the platform.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, observability, and scalability as message volume grows.
- Drive technical direction and contribute through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
Requirements
- Experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows.
- Demonstrated ownership of a system or product area end to end and experience shaping its technical direction.
- Strong system-design judgment focused on reliability, idempotency, and correctness in high-volume distributed systems.
- Product sense and attention to the experience of people receiving communications.
- Clear communication and collaborative decision-making across product, design, and engineering.
- Experience with notification, messaging, or communications platforms is preferred.
- Experience integrating with Twilio, SendGrid, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or WhatsApp is preferred.
- Experience building internal platforms or shared services used by many engineering teams is preferred.
- Experience scaling high-volume, event-driven, or queue-based systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO, centralized home-office equipment ordering, health and wellness stipend, budget for intra-office travel, and weekly coffee stipend.
- United States employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a One Medical membership, 401(k) with employer match, fertility HRA, paid parental leave, pet insurance, in-office perks, and possible relocation coverage to NYC or SF.
- Canada employees receive group medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, fertility drug, retirement, parental-leave, employee-assistance, and virtual-care benefits.
- United Kingdom employees receive private medical insurance, virtual GP and at-home care, and a workplace pension with salary-sacrifice option.
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About Ramp
Ramp builds a finance operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards with expense management, bill pay, accounts payable, travel, and accounting automation. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company’s systems handle over $200B in annualized spend across 70,000+ companies. Its business model blends card interchange with software that helps finance teams control and automate spending.