Senior IT Automation Engineer

About Ramp

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 30,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.

Ramp's investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

As the dedicated Automation Engineer for Ramp’s IT Engineering team, you will lead the charge in building forward-thinking, full-featured, and scalable automation and integration solutions. These solutions will empower your colleagues in IT and across Ramp to reduce or eliminate burdensome manual work. You’ll have the opportunity to take full ownership of the IT automation strategy, exploring cutting-edge tools and solutions to reshape how teams work and drive impactful change across the company.

Your expertise in connecting numerous tools through APIs, automation platforms, and full-on code will have a wide-reaching impact. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of IT automation at Ramp by identifying inefficiencies, designing scalable solutions, and driving productivity improvements across teams. Your work will not only solve immediate challenges but also lay the foundation for long-term operational excellence, empowering Ramp to scale efficiently and focus on strategic priorities.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and deploy scalable automation solutions to streamline complex workflows and integrations.

• Research, evaluate, and communicate technical solutions clearly to teammates across all levels.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities, transforming manual processes into efficient, measurable improvements.

• Collaborate closely with IT Operations to optimize and automate technical support tasks and daily operations.

• Mentor IT Engineering teammates through hands-on collaboration, elevating their automation skill sets and capabilities.

• Prototype and integrate emerging technologies into Ramp’s existing systems to enhance automation capabilities.

• Assess project requirements to select and implement the most effective automation tools and approaches.

What You Need 

• 4+ years of experience in an IT Engineering position, with an emphasis on integration-building and workflow automation.

• Deep understanding of tools in Ramp’s core technology stack (Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom) and the ability to quickly learn and master new platforms.

• Strong proficiency in using APIs and logic to build with no-code or low-code automation platforms like Okta Workflows, Tines, and Tray.

• Proven capability to build custom-code solutions using Python for solving more complex problems.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about the role of automation in scaling business processes.

• Experience with developing Slack applications and a strong understanding of Block Kit.

• A passion for building creative solutions to solve complex problems in unique and innovative ways.

• The drive to push the envelope of what’s possible with today’s tools, while advocating for the technologies needed to reach the next level.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with Tray.ai/Tray.io

• Proficiency in GraphQL APIs.

• Experience in JS/TypeScript

• Familiarity with deploying custom-code solutions to platforms like Google Cloud Run, App Engine, or similar.

• Willingness to learn and expand your expertise into new platforms and tools as needed.

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 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

• Pet insurance

Other notices

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