# Software Engineer, Dev API

**Company:** [Ramp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ramp)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $168k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Temporal, Postgres, APIs, Ai Coding Agents, Agentic Workflows
**Posted:** 2026-06-29

> Build and operate Ramp's developer API platform using autonomous AI agents and tooling. Lead complex backend projects with Python, Temporal, and Postgres; strong focus on developer experience, reliability, and AI-driven development.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Build and operate Ramp's multi-surface platform with a high bar for reliability, correctness, and developer experience across tens of thousands of businesses.
- Serve thousands of builders and partners using our API, driving a large fraction of Ramp’s revenue.
- Build software factories -- autonomous tooling and agents that accelerate endpoint creation, enabling teams across Ramp to ship their own API surfaces.
- Lead design and execution of complex backend projects end-to-end (architecture, implementation, rollout, monitoring) in Python, Temporal, and Postgres.
- Own user experience and platform robustness end-to-end -- harden and evolve the API with an emphasis on quality, reliability, and sustainability.

## What You Need
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Experience building APIs or developer-facing platforms
- Strong instinct for developer experience -- you've felt the pain of bad docs, bad error messages, and bad onboarding
- Strong ownership over delivering technical and business outcomes in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated hands-on, daily use of AI coding agents as the primary development driver
- Comfort with agentic workflows, orchestration layers, and AI tooling broadly

## Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Unlimited AI token usage
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage (US)
- 401(k) with employer match
- Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
- Parental leave: up to 16 weeks at 100% pay
- Relocation support to NYC or SF

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