Senior Design-Engineer | Design Systems

Ramp•New York City, NY

16h

About The Position

We're seeking a Design-Engineer passionate about learning from an exceptional team and shaping how designers and engineers collaborate to deliver outstanding experiences rapidly—a ground-floor opportunity in our design-driven company. In this role, you'll empower our design and engineering teams to create better, more consistent experiences across all products and platforms. You’ll evolve and maintain our design system in both design and front-end libraries, infrastructure, and documentation, and help build internal tooling to promote velocity. Having worked as a designer, you understand the challenges firsthand. You're driven to improve the design-eng collaboration because you've experienced its pain points. You excel in UI and accessible design, prefer working directly in-browser, and get excited about emerging CSS properties. As an individual contributor, you'll have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders while making a significant impact across the product. You'll help evolve our design and front-end processes to amplify our users' voices and deliver exceptional experiences daily.

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

Nice To Haves

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

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