Senior Design Systems Engineer

Ramp; United States; Remote; USD 188,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health and wellness stipend

In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a Design Systems Engineer in the United States to build and evolve the components and APIs used across Ramp product teams. You’ll work with designers to enforce design rules in code, and help ensure the system scales as AI-assisted UI evolves.

You’ll own frontend architecture, focusing on accessible, semantic UI and modern CSS, with substantial impact on every Ramp screen shipped. This IC role offers influence on architecture and development tooling.

Qualifications

• Experience building design system components and APIs
• Strong frontend development skills: semantic HTML, CSS (latest features) and JavaScript/React
• Experience collaborating with designers to turn UX patterns into components
• Ability to drive end-to-end implementation with good UX and system design sense
• Attention to motion, states, accessibility, and coherent system behavior

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the components and APIs that Ramp product teams rely on
• Decide when to encode rules in components vs. guidance or automation
• Collaborate with design systems lead and designers to implement UX patterns as reusable components
• Shape the system to be robust when both engineers and AI agents build on it
• Contribute to internal tooling and infrastructure to maintain velocity and quality
• Champion user experience and accessibility across Ramp products
• Develop elegant, consistent component APIs to speed up shipping
• Iterate on core products and experiences based on user feedback

Skills

Frontend engineering

Design system components

API design

Semantic HTML

React

UX collaboration

Documentation

Communication

Accessibility

Tools

Figma

Job description

Target Base Salary $188,000 – $259,250 Offers Equity

ABOUT RAMP

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 7.5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

ABOUT THE ROLE

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. 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You Need

• 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

Nice to Haves

• 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 AVAILABLE TO ALL FULL‑TIME RAMP EMPLOYEES (GLOBAL)

• Flexible PTO
• Centralized home‑office equipment ordering
• Health and wellness stipend
• Budget for intra‑office travel
• Weekly coffee stipend

UNITED STATES

• 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
• Pet insurance
• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
• Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)

CANADA

• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life
• Life, AD&D, and disability coverage
• Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)
• Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)
• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay
• Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

UNITED KINGDOM

• Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
• Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
• Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option
• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

OTHER NOTICES

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.