Ramp

Software Engineer - Frontend

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What Ramp is looking for in applicants

Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. Over 5000 businesses are spending an average of 3.3% less and closing their books 8 times faster, thanks to Ramp’s finance automation platform that enables billions of dollars of purchases each year.

Founded in 2019, Ramp has seen nearly 10x year-over-year growth which has led to a valuation of $8.1 billion in just over 3 years. Its investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The team is made up of talented leaders from some of the leading financial services and fintech companies—Capital One, Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Visa—as well as high-growth technology companies like Facebook, Spotify, Zendesk, Uber, Dropbox, and Instacart. Recently named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company, Ramp is NYC’s fastest-growing startup and America’s fastest-growing corporate card.

Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!

About the Role

Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in NYC! We hire engineers with a broad set of technical skills, who 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 has a deep understanding of JavaScript, a passion for web performance, and can creatively come up with solutions to solve customer's needs. Our flavors of JavaScript today include TypeScript and React.

What You’ll Do

  • Build performant, beautiful, and usable interfaces that solve for growing businesses with complex needs
  • Apply your prior experience and engineering skills to build new and scale up existing Ramp products: Card, Spend Management, BillPay, Reimbursements, Lending, Savings, Travel, etc. Help us break into the new verticals and opportunities.
  • Continuously increase your ownership and deepen your expertise in both product and platform areas.
  • Inspire and mentor young engineers and interns.
  • Work and effectively communicate in a dynamic and fast moving environment across engineering, product, risk, growth and go-to-market to develop product and system specifications, metrics, KPIs and support procedures
  • Contribute to roadmap and plans, help define and meet your team’s goals (OKRs).  
  • Work with product and business teams to incorporate customer feedback in order to constantly improve our product 
  • Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team
  • Proactively engage with your peers and managers to provide and solicit feedback, recruit, interview engineering candidates and develop your own interview questions, foster the culture of excellence, velocity and humility.

What You'll Need

  • Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience
  • Track record of shipping high quality products and features
  • Proficiency in JavaScript
  • Empathy for the variety of customers we support
  • An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems
  • A knack for getting the visuals right
  • Professional experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages

Nice to Haves

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
  • Proficiency in React v16+
  • Passion for, or curiosity to learn, financial technology

About Our Teams

  • Spend Engineering | Ramp’s Spend Engineering team is responsible for shipping products with a singular focus on enhancing the finance team and cardholder experience. Current project areas include accounting, physical/virtual card management, mobile wallets, transactions, reimbursements, spend insights, and vendor/invoice management.
  • Risk Engineering | Ramp’s Risk Engineering team is pioneering how risk is evaluated and building the infrastructure to scale to millions of businesses in the United States. Areas include application processing, underwriting & KYC, risk data signals, risk limit & exposure management, bank linking, capital markets, fraud, and payments.
  • Growth Engineering | Ramp's Growth Engineering team ships software and infrastructure to acquire new business and expand existing business at scale. Current areas of focus include: Self-Service Product, Web & Martech, Outbound Automation, Customer Data Platform, and GTM Systems.

Ramp Benefits (for U.S. based employees)

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
    • Partially covered for your dependents
    • OneMedical annual membership
  • 401k (including employer match)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Annual education reimbursement
  • WFH stipend to support your home office needs
  • Monthly wellness stipend; Headspace annual membership
  • Parental Leave
  • Relocation support

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