Ramp

Tech Lead - Frontend

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What Ramp is looking for in applicants

Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. Over 5000 businesses are spending an average of 3.3% less and closing their books 8 times faster, thanks to Ramp’s finance automation platform that enables billions of dollars of purchases each year.

Founded in 2019, Ramp has seen nearly 10x year-over-year growth which has led to a valuation of $8.1 billion in just over 3 years. Its investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The team is made up of talented leaders from some of the leading financial services and fintech companies—Capital One, Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Visa—as well as high-growth technology companies like Facebook, Spotify, Zendesk, Uber, Dropbox, and Instacart. Recently named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company, Ramp is NYC’s fastest-growing startup and America’s fastest-growing corporate card.

Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!

About the Role

In this role, you will be an advocate and coach for your team while solving frontend challenges, getting hands-on coding, and scaling product success at a fast paced start up. Our ideal candidate leverages their leadership, technical expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a technical leader, you’ll help establish the team’s vision and see it through.

We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of JavaScript, a passion for UX or web performance — or both, and strong at identifying and building the right abstractions to support other engineers. Engineering Management or Tech Leadership experience is a plus.

What You’ll Do

  • Build
  • Help lead (and — if you’re up for it — manage) a team of highly skilled frontend engineers while coaching, mentoring, and advocating for them
  • Collaborate on our technical vision. Lead discussions and implementation of multiple complex projects
  • Foster a culture of upholding industry-leading UX
  • Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team
  • Proactively engage with your peers and managers to provide and solicit feedback
  • Recruit, interview and develop your own interview questions, while fostering the culture of excellence, velocity and humility

What You'll Need

  • Minimum 7 years of FE engineering experience
  • Minimum 3 years of technical leadership experience leading and/or managing teams
  • Proficiency in JavaScript 
  • A knack for getting the visuals right
  • A track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
  • Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
  • Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
  • Alignment with Ramp’s core values of enabling businesses to grow more by spending less

Nice to Haves

  • Experience building and managing high performing teams

About Our Teams

  • Spend Engineering | Ramp’s Spend Engineering team is responsible for shipping products with a singular focus on enhancing the finance team and cardholder experience. Current project areas include accounting, physical/virtual card management, mobile wallets, transactions, reimbursements, spend insights, and vendor/invoice management.
  • Risk Engineering | Ramp’s Risk Engineering team is pioneering how risk is evaluated and building the infrastructure to scale to millions of businesses in the United States. Areas include application processing, underwriting & KYC, risk data signals, risk limit & exposure management, bank linking, capital markets, fraud, and payments.
  • Growth Engineering | Ramp's Growth Engineering team ships software and infrastructure to acquire new business and expand existing business at scale. Current areas of focus include: Self-Service Product, Web & Martech, Outbound Automation, Customer Data Platform, and GTM Systems.

Ramp Benefits (for U.S. based employees)

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
    • Partially covered for your dependents
    • OneMedical annual membership
  • 401k (including employer match)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Annual education reimbursement
  • WFH stipend to support your home office needs
  • Monthly wellness stipend; Headspace annual membership
  • Parental Leave
  • Relocation support

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