About the job
As a Staff Software Engineer on our AI DevX team, you'll architect and own the developer tooling and infrastructure that enables hundreds of engineers to build software faster with AI. You'll act as both a technical owner and a multiplier: shipping platforms that accelerate agent-driven engineering, while shaping best practices that scale across the organization. You will be expected to take ownership of critical AI DevX systems while also influencing Ramp's broader AI strategy and engineering culture. Our ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with a passion for AI, an obsession with developer productivity, strong collaborative instincts, and proven experience shipping and maintaining tools that developers rely on daily.
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
Qualifications
Minimum
- 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
Preferred
- 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