Senior Design Engineer (Frontend)

Location: Remote (US). Other locations: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY (HQ). Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF may be available if needed.

Salary: $188,000–$259,250 plus equity.

Company

Ramp builds embedded financial infrastructure for finance teams, automating payments, risk flagging, spend categorization, and book closing across more than 85,000 companies.

What you will do

• Build and evolve design-system components and APIs used by every Ramp product team.
• Decide whether design rules belong in components, documentation, or automation that detects drift.
• Partner with the design systems lead and designers to turn UX patterns and principles into consistent components.
• Shape the system for products built by both engineers and AI agents, and contribute to internal tooling and infrastructure.
• Champion user experience, accessibility, developer experience, and quality across Ramp products.
• Participate in design critiques, story creation, stand-ups, hiring, and team growth.

Requirements

• Experience in a tech startup, digital product agency, or equivalent environment.
• Strong hands-on frontend engineering ability, including the ability to pass Ramp’s engineering interview loop without relying only on AI-generated code.
• Experience building design-system components and APIs, not only consuming them.
• Excellent frontend development skills in semantic HTML, current CSS features, JavaScript, and preferably React.
• Ability to drive implementation end to end with sound UX and system-design judgment.
• Strong understanding of product-design software, preferably Figma, and visual and interaction design principles.
• Strong organizational, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills, including the ability to challenge decisions with clear reasoning.
• Attention to motion, states, accessibility, and detailed interaction decisions that create a coherent system.

Nice to have

• Design-systems experience from before AI tooling became widespread.
• Ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers.
• Solid understanding of accessibility development practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees receive flexible PTO, home-office equipment ordering, a health and wellness stipend, an intra-office travel budget, and a weekly coffee stipend.
• US employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, One Medical membership, a 401(k) with employer match, fertility HRA, parental leave, and pet insurance.
• US employees may receive in-office perks and relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF.
• Benefits also include country-specific healthcare, retirement, parental-leave, and assistance programs in Canada and the United Kingdom.
• Ramp is an individual-contributor role on a small team with meaningful influence over architecture, API design, and implementation tradeoffs.

Hiring process

• Referred candidates should contact the referring person and have that person apply on their behalf.
• Ramp will contact candidates only through official @Ramp.com email addresses and will not request payment or sensitive personal information.