Senior Design Systems Engineer: Build AI‑Ready UI Components

Ramp; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Centralized home-office equipment

Health and wellness stipend

Budget for intra-office travel

Weekly coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp Corp. is seeking a Design Systems Engineer to build and evolve the components and APIs that power Ramp’s product teams.

You’ll work closely with the design systems lead and designers to encode UX patterns into reliable components, driving end-to-end implementation and a strong developer experience. As AI agents influence UI, you’ll help define guarantees when humans and agents build on top of the system, ensuring accessibility and consistent UX while maintaining velocity and quality across

Qualifications

• 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

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

Skills

Frontend engineering

Design systems

React

Accessibility

Figma

Tools

React

Figma

CSS

Job description

Ramp Corp. is seeking a Design Systems Engineer to build and evolve the components and APIs that power Ramp’s product teams.

You’ll work closely with the design systems lead and designers to encode UX patterns into reliable components, driving end-to-end implementation and a strong developer experience. As AI agents influence UI, you’ll help define guarantees when humans and agents build on top of the system, ensuring accessibility and consistent UX while maintaining velocity and quality across