Senior Design-Engineer

Summary

Join Ramp, a leading financial operations platform, and contribute to the evolution of its cross-platform design system. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams to develop and implement tooling, focusing on quality and speed. Responsibilities include championing user experience and accessibility, identifying areas for improvement, and collaborating on long-term product vision. You will also support designers and engineers in evolving design systems and component APIs. The role involves participation in team rituals and contributing to team growth. This position requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in tech/startup or digital product agencies.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
• Strong understanding of Product Design software (pref. Figma)
• Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX and UI principles and background in visual/interaction design
• Excellent front-end development skills in semantic HTML, CSS (up to date on latest features) and Javascript (and frameworks, pref. React)
• Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code
• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, bridging the gap between design and engineering

Responsibilities

• Help maintain and evolve the design and development of Ramp’s cross-platform design system
• Contribute to the design and user experience for our core product by evolving the design process through documentation and guidelines
• Work directly with product/engineering/design teams to develop and implement tooling with a focus on maintaining quality and speed
• Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
• Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences. Identify areas of improvement and deliver value to customers every day
• Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
• Collaborate with and support engineerings with elegant and consistent component APIs and a focus on the developer experience
• Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc
• Help us hire more amazing people to grow the team and bring diverse perspectives to our process

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
• Solid understanding of accessibility development practices

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• Partially covered for your dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Wellness stipend
• Parental Leave
• Relocation support to NYC or SF
• Pet insurance