# Software Engineer, Fraud & Identity **Company:** [Ramp](https://scaleengineer.com/companies/ramp) Ramp is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Fraud & Identity to build critical security and risk management systems that protect financial transactions and user accounts. The ideal candidate will develop sophisticated backend services to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud while enhancing authentication and authorization mechanisms across the company's financial infrastructure. **Role:** Software Engineer **Seniority:** Senior **Locations:** New York, NY (HQ) **Salary:** 168000–284900 USD [Apply](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/8fa367de-71ba-409e-befd-175a163acb1b) Canonical: https://scaleengineer.com/jobs/ramp/software-engineer-fraud-identity --- ## Responsibilities - Fraud Detection Systems: Build and evolve backend services to detect and prevent fraud across multiple surfaces, including account access and money movement. - Security Enforcement: Develop enforcement and response tooling enabling fast, safe actions like identity locks, business locks, and payment freezes. - Account Protection: Implement advanced protections against account takeover (ATO), including risk-based step-ups, monitoring, and targeted friction controls. - System Observability: Design and operate high-signal systems with comprehensive observability, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and incident response playbooks. - Identity Management: Collaborate with UIM/Identity stakeholders to strengthen authentication and identity foundations, including roles, permissions, and identity state management. ## Requirements ### education - {"name":"Technical Degree","description":"Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred"} ### technical - {"name":"Backend Engineering","description":"Strong fundamentals in APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, and system reliability"} - {"name":"Detection Systems","description":"Experience with data-informed detection or decisioning systems, including rules engines, scoring, and anomaly detection"} - {"name":"Production Systems","description":"Proven ability to manage production environments, including debugging, incident response, and system instrumentation"} ### experience - {"name":"Professional Experience","description":"Minimum 3+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent"} - {"name":"Cross-functional Collaboration","description":"Demonstrated ability to work effectively with product, operations, and cross-functional teams"} ## Skills ### required - {"name":"Backend Development","description":"Expertise in building scalable backend services and distributed systems"} - {"name":"System Security","description":"Strong understanding of fraud detection, risk management, and security principles"} - {"name":"Programming Languages","description":"Proficiency in modern backend programming languages and frameworks"} ### preferred - {"name":"Security Specialization","description":"Experience in fraud, risk, identity, authentication, or security engineering"} - {"name":"Payment Systems","description":"Familiarity with payment rails, card transaction risk, and account security patterns"} ## Tech stack ### tools - {"name":"Kubernetes","description":"Container orchestration platform for scalable and reliable deployments"} - {"name":"Prometheus","description":"Monitoring and alerting toolkit for system observability"} ### others - {"name":"Machine Learning","description":"ML models for advanced fraud detection and risk scoring"} ### databases - {"name":"PostgreSQL","description":"Relational database for storing structured transactional and user data"} - {"name":"Redis","description":"In-memory data structure store for caching and real-time analytics"} ### languages - {"name":"Python","description":"Primary backend programming language for developing robust systems"} - {"name":"Go","description":"Systems programming language for high-performance backend services"} ### frameworks - {"name":"gRPC","description":"High-performance RPC framework for microservices communication"} - {"name":"FastAPI","description":"Modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python"} ## Benefits ### benefits - {"name":"Healthcare","description":"100% coverage for medical, dental & vision insurance, including One Medical membership"} - {"name":"Retirement","description":"401k with employer match on contributions"} - {"name":"Flexible Work","description":"Flexible PTO and hybrid work arrangement"} - {"name":"Family Support","description":"Fertility HRA up to $10,000 annually and comprehensive parental leave"} - {"name":"Professional Development","description":"Home office equipment, health and wellness stipend, and travel budget"} ## Compensation - **max:** 284900 - **min:** 168000 - **currency:** USD - **stockOptions:** true ## Interview process ### steps - {"name":"Initial Screening","description":"Phone or video call with recruiting team to discuss background and role fit"} - {"name":"Technical Assessment","description":"Online coding challenge or take-home project focusing on backend and security skills"} - {"name":"Technical Interviews","description":"Multiple rounds of interviews with engineering team, covering system design, coding, and problem-solving"} - {"name":"Final Interview","description":"Meeting with hiring manager and potential team members to assess cultural fit and final evaluation"} ## Full description # **About Ramp** Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. **About the Role** We are hiring a Software Engineer to build systems across Fraud, UIM (User & Identity Management), and Identity. This role sits at the intersection of security, risk decisioning, and product experience. You will help build detection and enforcement capabilities for fraud and account takeover, as well as the identity primitives that power authentication, authorization, and safe account access. This work is deeply cross-functional. You will partner closely with Fraud Ops, Risk Strategy, Security, Product, and Data to ship improvements that are measurable in loss reduction, attack containment, and user experience. ### **What You’ll Do** * Build and evolve backend services that detect and prevent fraud across multiple surfaces, including account access and money movement. * Develop enforcement and response tooling that enables fast, safe actions such as identity locks, business locks, payment freezes, and other containment levers. * Improve protections against account takeover (ATO), including risk-based step-ups, monitoring, and targeted friction controls (for example “under attack” style controls and MFA surge detection/alerting). * Design and operate high-signal systems with strong observability: metrics, dashboards, alerting, and playbooks for incidents and fraud campaigns. * Partner with UIM/Identity stakeholders to strengthen authentication and identity foundations (roles, permissions, identity state, and related platform primitives). * Drive end-to-end delivery: technical design, implementation, rollout strategy, and iteration based on outcome metrics. ### **What You’ll Need** * 3+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent). * Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability). * Experience building data-informed detection or decisioning systems (rules engines, scoring, anomaly detection, or similar), or strong interest in learning in this domain. * Proven ability to operate production systems: debugging, incident response, and improving on-call quality through instrumentation and automation. * Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort working with product and operations partners. **Nice to Have** * Experience in fraud, risk, identity, authentication, authorization, abuse prevention, or security engineering. * Familiarity with payments rails, card transaction risk, or account security patterns. * Experience building internal tools for operations teams (case management, investigation, enforcement workflows). ## **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 $10,000 per year) * Parental Leave * Unlimited AI token usage * Pet insurance * Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees * Health and Wellness stipend * In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more * Budget for intra-office travel * Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed) ## **Referral Instructions** If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf. ## **Other notices** Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. _Beware of recruiting scams: Ramp will only contact you through official @_[_Ramp.com_](http://Ramp.com) _email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process._ [Ramp Applicant Privacy Notice](https://ramp.com/legal/applicant-privacy-notice)