Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Thomson Reuters
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Backend Engineer – Financial Systems
Ramp
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $259,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsPythonSQL
About the role
- Design and build large-scale financial systems that handle high volumes of transactional data with correctness and precision
- Create robust and extensible data models and orchestration logic for ledgering, reconciliation, and financial reporting systems
- Partner directly with our CFO and finance leadership to translate business requirements into technical specifications
- Build systems that maintain auditability, data integrity, and regulatory compliance across our expanding product ecosystem
- Work on complex problems involving distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and financial data at scale
- Collaborate with engineers who care deeply about correctness, reliability, and elegant system design
Requirements
- 3-5 years of backend engineering experience with expertise in building data-intensive systems
- Strong Python experience (ideally as your primary language)
- Deep SQL knowledge and experience working with complex data models
- Proven system design skills - you can take high-level requirements and architect scalable, maintainable solutions
- Experience thriving in startup-like environments with high ambiguity and requiring independent problem-solving
- Comfortable working flexibly across the stack - equally at home prototyping analyses in a Jupyter notebook and implementing production backend endpoints
- Track record of building reliable, well-tested systems where correctness matters
Benefits
- 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 to NYC or SF (as needed)
- Pet insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PythonSQLdata modelssystem designbackend engineeringdata-intensive systemsevent-driven architecturesdistributed systemsledgeringfinancial reporting
Soft skills
problem-solvingcollaborationindependent workadaptabilityattention to detailcommunicationreliabilityelegant system designbusiness requirements translationworking in ambiguity
