Tech Lead, Ramp Travel

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Home-office stipend

Health & wellness stipend

Travel budget

Weekly coffee stipend

Relocation to NYC or SF

Job summary

Ramp is building a global travel management platform that powers enterprise travel for customers. We seek a leader to grow the Travel engineering team, own delivery of search, pricing, checkout, policy evaluation, and post-booking services, and drive reliability with external integrations.

You will partner with product, design, ops, partnerships, and sales on enterprise commitments. The role emphasizes owning complex systems, mentoring engineers, and shipping AI-assisted booking features while

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing engineers in teams of 5–15.
• Ownership mindset; comfortable tackling ambiguous problems.
• Has built something 0→1 and scaled it.
• Willing to be hands-on; Ramp engineers are builders.
• Able to lead design reviews and evaluate architecture proposals.
• Strong product judgment and comfort communicating with customers.
• Experience owning transactional systems with external dependencies (booking, payments, marketplace).

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow the Ramp Travel engineering team (~6 engineers).
• Own delivery across travel surfaces: search, inventory, quoting, checkout, policy evaluation, loyalty, post-booking servicing.
• Ensure reliability with third-party integrations: supplier APIs, GDS/content, TMCs.
• Partner with Product, Design, Ops, Partnerships, and Sales on enterprise travel commitments.
• Set practices for AI-assisted development and ship agentic booking features.
• Hire and scale the team.

Skills

People management

Ownership

Hands-on coding

Architecture reviews

Product judgment

Customer communication

External dependencies

Job description

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 $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ 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 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

The Ramp Travel team builds the travel booking and management platform built-in to Ramp. We build the capabilities that allows travelers to stay productive on the road: flight and hotel search, booking and checkout, our agentic travel assistant, and on-the-go mobile trip guidance. We also own the capabilities that ensure companies are spending their travel dollars effectively: travel policy evaluation, supplier and TMC integrations and benchmarking, and data insights.

Growing the sophistication and global reach of the Travel product is a top strategic priority at Ramp. The work this team does directly enables Ramp to to support some of the largest and most interesting customers in the world.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, coach, and grow the Ramp Travel engineering team (~6 engineers today).

• Own delivery across our travel management surfaces: search and inventory, quoting and repricing, checkout, policy evaluation, loyalty, post-booking servicing.

• Own reliability and correctness of a system dependent on third parties: supplier APIs, GDS and aggregator content, TMC and OBT integrations.

• Partner with Product, Design, Ops, Partnerships, and Sales on enterprise travel commitments.

• Set the team's practices for AI-assisted development and ship agentic booking features.

• Hire. The team is expected to grow.

What You'll Need

• 2+ years managing engineers, team size roughly 5 to 15.

• High levels of ownership. Comfortability taking difficult ambiguous problems and driving successful execution.

• Has built something 0→1 and then scaled it.

• Willing to be hands‑on. This is a six-person team, and everyone at Ramp is a builder.

• Current enough technically to lead a design review and evaluate an architecture proposal.

• Strong product judgment and comfort talking to customers.

• Has owned a transactional system with external dependencies: booking, payments, marketplace, or logistics.

Preferred

• Corporate travel domain experience, such as: corporate online booking tools (OBTs), integrations with travel content sources (GDS/NDC), and front-end traveler experiences.

• Enterprise B2B fintech or T&E background.

• Has rolled out agentic dev tooling to a team, or shipped LLM-backed features.

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

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