Design-Engineer | Design Systems

About Ramp

At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave. It’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it.

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 45,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp.

Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year.

Ramp’s investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and Linked In’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.

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

• Minimum 8 years of 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…