Key skills
FigmaHTMLCSSJavaScriptReactVisual DesignUX/UI PrinciplesComponent LibraryAccessibility PracticesDocumentationCommunication SkillsCollaboration SkillsOrganizational SkillsCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Ramp is a financial operations platform that aims to save companies time and money through an all-in-one solution. They are seeking a Design Engineer to help maintain and evolve their design system and improve collaboration between design and engineering teams, ensuring high-quality user experiences across all products.
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
Requirements:
- 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
- Ability to articulate complex concepts to technical and non-technical peers
- Solid understanding of accessibility development practices