Design Engineer, Design Systems

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're seeking a Design Engineer passionate about learning from an exceptional team and shaping how designers and engineers collaborate to deliver outstanding experiences rapidly—a ground-floor opportunity in our design-driven company. In this role, you'll empower our design and engineering teams to create better, more consistent experiences across all products and platforms. You’ll evolve and maintain our design system in both design and front-end libraries, infrastructure, and documentation, and help build internal tooling to promote velocity.

Having worked as a designer, you understand the challenges firsthand. You're driven to improve the design-eng collaboration because you've experienced its pain points. You excel in UI and accessible design, prefer working directly in-browser, and get excited about emerging CSS properties.

As an individual contributor, you'll have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders while making a significant impact across the product. You'll help evolve our design and front-end processes to amplify our users' voices and deliver exceptional experiences daily.

What You’ll Do

• Help maintain and evolve the design and development of Ramp’s cross-platform design system

• Contribute to the design and user experience for our core product by evolving the design process through documentation and guidelines

• Work directly with product/engineering/design teams to develop and implement tooling with a focus on maintaining quality and speed

• Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible

• Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences. Identify areas of improvement and deliver value to customers every day.

• Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process

• Collaborate with and support engineerings with elegant and consistent component APIs and a focus on the developer experience

• Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc.

• Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our process

What You Need

• Tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent

• Strong understanding of Product Design software (pref. Figma)

• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX and UI principles and background in visual/interaction design

• Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features) and Javascript (and frameworks, pref. React)

• Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code

• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering

Nice to Haves

• Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers

• Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

• 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)

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