Senior Design Systems Engineer

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends.

We’re hiring a Design Systems 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the components and APIs that every product team at Ramp depends on
• Make the enforcement call: when to encode a rule in the component itself, when to leave it to guidance, and when to invest in automation that catches drift
• Partner with our design systems lead and designers to turn UX patterns and principles into working, consistent components
• Shape the system so it holds up when both engineers and AI agents are building on it
• Contribute to internal tooling and infrastructure that keeps velocity high without sacrificing quality
• Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and keep the quality bar high
• Help designers and engineers across Ramp ship faster with elegant, consistent component APIs and a focus on developer experience
• Advocate for users by continuously iterating on our core products and experiences
• Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, and weekly stand-ups
• Help us hire and grow the team to bring more craft and more perspectives to the work

Requirements

• 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

Nice to Have

• 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
• 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