Senior Design-Engineer | Design Systems

Position Overview

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. As a Design-Engineer at Ramp, you will empower our design and engineering teams to deliver outstanding, consistent user experiences across all products and platforms. In this ground-floor opportunity, you will help evolve our design system, develop internal tooling, and bridge the gap between design and engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, and design teams to develop and implement tooling focused on quality and speed
• Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, ensuring a high quality bar
• Advocate for our users by continuously iterating and evolving core products and experiences
• Collaborate with designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal collaboration processes
• Collaborate with engineers to create elegant and consistent component APIs with a focus on developer experience
• Participate in daily team rituals such as design critiques, story creation, and stand-ups
• Assist in hiring exceptional talent to grow the team and drive diverse perspectives

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of Product Design software (preferably Figma)
• Extraordinary visual design skills with a solid grasp of UX and UI principles and a background in visual/interaction design
• Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up-to-date on latest features), and JavaScript (with frameworks, preferably React)
• Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
• Strong organizational skills and a passion for documentation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills bridging design and engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical peers
• Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

Benefits & Perks

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• Partially covered insurance for your dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
• Parental Leave
• Pet insurance
• Centralized home-office equipment ordering
• 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)
• Compensation Range: $159.1K - $218.8K