Ramp is a financial operations platform focused on revolutionizing how finance teams operate in the age of AI. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI DevX team, you will architect and manage developer tooling and infrastructure, enabling engineers to enhance their productivity with AI-driven solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Stay at the forefront of the AI development ecosystem. Deeply understand model capabilities, evaluate emerging tools critically, and make informed decisions about when and how to adopt new technologies
- Drive proficiency with the most effective AI coding tools and practices across the engineering organization
- Build platforms that help our devs offload more work to AI and empower AI to perform better when doing Ramp dev work
- Gather developer feedback, identify friction points, and iterate on solutions that improve developer velocity
- Grow AI vendor partnerships and serve as the advocate for Ramp’s engineers
Requirements:
- Typically 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep backend engineering expertise spanning infrastructure, services, and data systems
- Python proficiency; Strong Bash/Unix fundamentals
- You thrive in your terminal, instinctively crafting reusable tools as you work
- Obsessed with productivity, automation, and optimization
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
- Strong AI fluency and AI coding tool proficiency
- Active power user of AI coding agents
- Proven track record shipping and maintaining developer tools
- Demonstrated experience building AI-powered systems
- Experience leading technical teams and owning technical roadmaps
- Forward-deployed engineering or public speaking/writing experience
- Background in AI/ML; Able to read and understand AI research papers
- Expertise in: Data Engineering, Frontend Engineering, Docker, Terraform