3 days ago
Base Salary
$188k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve reusable design-system components and APIs used by Ramp product teams.
- Decide whether design rules should be enforced in components, documented as guidance, or supported by automation.
- Partner with the design systems lead and designers to translate UX patterns and principles into consistent components.
- Shape the design system for products built by both engineers and AI agents.
- Contribute to internal tooling and infrastructure that improves development velocity and quality.
- Champion user experience, accessibility, visual quality, and coherent interaction details.
- Improve developer experience through elegant, consistent component APIs and documentation.
- Participate in design critiques, story creation, stand-ups, and other team rituals.
- Help hire and grow the design engineering team.
Requirements
- Experience in a technology startup, digital product agency, or equivalent experience.
- Strong hands-on frontend engineering ability suitable for Ramp's engineering interview process.
- Experience building design-system components and APIs rather than only consuming them.
- Excellent skills in semantic HTML, modern CSS, JavaScript, and preferably React.
- Ability to drive implementations end to end with strong UX and systems-design judgment.
- Strong understanding of product design software, preferably Figma, and visual and interaction design principles.
- Strong organizational, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Attention to motion, component states, accessibility, and other details that create a coherent system.
- Nice to have: design-systems experience from before widespread AI tooling, ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, and solid accessibility-development knowledge.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO, centralized home-office equipment ordering, a health and wellness stipend, an intra-office travel budget, and a weekly coffee stipend.
- US employees receive full medical, dental, and vision coverage for themselves with partial dependent coverage, One Medical membership, a 401(k) with employer match, fertility HRA, parental leave, pet insurance, in-office perks, and relocation expense coverage to NYC or San Francisco.
- Canadian employees receive group medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability, fertility drug, retirement, parental-leave, employee-assistance, and virtual-care benefits.
- UK employees receive private medical insurance, virtual GP and at-home care, a workplace pension with salary-sacrifice option, and parental leave.
- The role is full-time and benefits are available globally to eligible Ramp employees.
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About Ramp
Ramp builds a finance operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards with expense management, bill pay, accounts payable, travel, and accounting automation. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company’s systems handle over $200B in annualized spend across 70,000+ companies. Its business model blends card interchange with software that helps finance teams control and automate spending.