Senior Design Systems Engineer - Frontend

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

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.