Staff Design-Engineer | Design Systems

Ramp; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial operations platform is seeking a Design-Engineer to enhance collaboration between design and engineering teams. The ideal candidate has at least 8 years of experience in tech/startup environments, strong UI design and front-end development skills, and excels in cross-functional collaboration. Benefits include comprehensive insurance, flexible PTO, and relocation support to NYC or SF. This role offers significant impact across products and a chance to contribute to innovative solutions.

Benefits

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage

401k with employer match

Flexible PTO

Pet insurance

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of product design software, preferably Figma.
• Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve Ramp’s cross-platform design system.
• Contribute to the design and user experience for core products.
• Collaborate with product teams to develop and implement tools.

Skills

UI and accessible design

Front-end development skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Collaboration and communication

Organizational skills

Visual design skills

Tools

Figma

Job description

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 50,000 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 Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Redpoint, and ICONIQ, 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 LinkedIn’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\u2019re 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\u2019ll empower our design and engineering teams to create better, more consistent experiences across all products and platforms. You\u2019ll 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\u2019re driven to improve the design-eng collaboration because you\u2019ve 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\u2019ll have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders while making a significant impact across the product. You\u2019ll 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 engineering 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 latest features) and Javascript (and frameworks, pref. React)
• Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering

Nice to Haves

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

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• Partially covered for your dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
• Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees
• Wellness stipend
• Parental Leave
• Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
• Pet insurance

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

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