[Hiring] Senior Design Engineer @Ramp

Role Description

We’re hiring a Design Engineer to be one of the few engineers building the components that every Ramp product team uses — the person who makes our design system real in code. You’ll work in close partnership with our design systems lead and designers: they decide what the rules are, and you decide how to enforce them. Sometimes that’s a component that won’t allow a bad pattern. Sometimes it’s a codebase move that makes the right path the easy one. Sometimes it’s automation that catches drift before it spreads.

With AI agents now writing much of the UI, this role is also at the frontier of a changing craft. You’ll help decide what the system has to guarantee when humans and agents are both building on top of it — because agents don’t settle for the happy path, and the system needs to hold up either way.

Having worked as a designer (or deeply alongside one), you understand the design-eng collaboration challenges firsthand. You’re driven to improve it because you’ve lived with the pain points. You excel in UI and accessible design, prefer working directly in-browser, and get excited about emerging CSS properties.

This is an IC role on a small team, which means you’ll have real say in architecture, API design, and the tradeoffs that shape how Ramp builds — foundational, detail-obsessed frontend work with an outsized impact on every screen we ship.

Qualifications

• Tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
• A strong frontend engineer who could pass any engineering loop at Ramp — real hands-on skill, not just prompting AI to write code
• Experience building design system components and APIs, not only consuming them
• Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features) and JavaScript (and frameworks, pref. React)
• Ability to drive implementation end to end, with sound UX and system design sense
• Strong understanding of Product Design software (pref. Figma) and visual/interaction design principles
• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness to push back with reasons — e.g., when encoding a rule in a component would slow everyone down
• Care for the details: motion, states, accessibility, and the small decisions that make a system feel coherent

Requirements

• Design systems experience from before AI tooling took off
• Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
• Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

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 you, with partial coverage for dependents (United States)
• One Medical annual membership
• 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
• Pet insurance
• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
• Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)
• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life (Canada)
• Life, AD&D, and disability coverage (Canada)
• Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime) (Canada)
• Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP) (Canada)
• Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite (United Kingdom)
• Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi (United Kingdom)
• Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option (United Kingdom)