Senior Design Systems Engineer
Ramp is an AI-powered financial operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and related finance workflows.
About Ramp
Ramp is a privately held New York financial-services company founded in 2019. Its platform combines corporate cards, spend and expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and other financial-operations services. Ramp reports serving more than 70,000 companies.
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About the Role
You will build the components and APIs that every Ramp product team uses, turning design system rules into real code. You will decide when to encode a rule in a component, leave it to guidance, or automate drift detection. You will partner with the design systems lead and designers, champion accessibility and developer experience, contribute to internal tooling, and help hire and grow the team.
Requirements
- Tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
- Strong frontend engineering skills
- Experience building design system components and APIs
- Excellent skills in semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (preferably React)
- Ability to drive implementation end to end with sound UX and system design sense
- Strong understanding of product design software (preferably Figma) and design principles
- Strong organizational and documentation skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Attention to detail in motion, states, and accessibility
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the components and APIs that every product team depends on
- Decide when to encode rules in components, guidance, or automation
- Partner with the design systems lead and designers to turn UX patterns into components
- Shape the system so it holds up when engineers and AI agents build on it
- Contribute to internal tooling and infrastructure
- Champion user experience and accessibility
- Improve developer experience with consistent component APIs
- Participate in team rituals like design crit, story creation, and weekly stand-ups
- Help hire and grow the team
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for employee, partial for dependents
- One Medical annual membership
- 401(k) with employer match
- Fertility HRA up to $10,000 per year
- Parental leave up to 16 weeks at 100% pay
- Pet insurance
- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks
- Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF
- Equity