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Tech Lead, Ramp Travel

Lead and grow the Ramp Travel engineering team, focusing on building and managing travel booking and management systems.

Location
New York, NY (HQ)
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
lead
Type
full time

Posted by employer 4 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 3 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago

What you'll build

  • Lead the Ramp Travel engineering team
  • Own delivery across travel management surfaces
  • Own reliability and correctness of systems
  • Partner with Product, Design, Ops, Partnerships, and Sales
  • Hire and grow the team

Must have

  • 2+ years managing engineers
  • High levels of ownership
  • Has built something 0→1 and then scaled it
  • Willing to be hands-on
  • Current enough technically to lead a design review

Nice to have

  • Corporate travel domain experience
  • Enterprise B2B fintech or T&E background
  • Has rolled out agentic dev tooling to a team

Role intensity

40% coding

AI in the day-to-day

Set the team's practices for AI-assisted development and ship agentic booking features.

Requirements

Experience
2+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Flexible PTO Health Insurance Relocation Assistance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

The Tech Lead for Ramp Travel is responsible for guiding a small engineering team in developing a comprehensive travel booking and management platform. This role requires a strong technical background, particularly in managing transactional systems with external dependencies, as well as experience in building and scaling products from the ground up. Ideal candidates will have a hands-on approach and a solid understanding of corporate travel and fintech. The team is focused on enhancing the sophistication of travel solutions for a diverse range of enterprise clients.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 3 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 24, 2026. Last confirmed on Ramp's careers page September 27, 2026.

Quick facts

How much experience is required?
At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Tech Lead, Ramp Travel role.
What seniority level is this role?
Ramp targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Tech Lead, Ramp Travel role at Ramp.

From the original posting

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

About the Role

The Ramp Travel team builds the travel booking and management platform built-in to Ramp. We build the capabilities that allows travelers to stay productive on the road: flight and hotel search, booking and checkout, our agentic travel assistant, and on-the-go mobile trip guidance. We also own the capabilities that ensure companies are spending their travel dollars effectively: travel policy evaluation, supplier and TMC integrations and benchmarking, and data insights.

Growing the sophistication and global reach of the Travel product is a top strategic priority at Ramp. The work this team does directly enables Ramp to to support some of the largest and most interesting customers in the world.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead, mentor, coach, and grow the Ramp Travel engineering team (~6 engineers today).

  • Own delivery across our travel management surfaces: search and inventory, quoting and repricing, checkout, policy evaluation, loyalty, post-booking servicing.

  • Own reliability and correctness of a system dependent on third parties: supplier APIs, GDS and aggregator content, TMC and OBT integrations.

  • Partner with Product, Design, Ops, Partnerships, and Sales on enterprise travel commitments.

  • Set the team's practices for AI-assisted development and ship agentic booking features.

  • Hire. The team is expected to grow.

What You'll Need

  • 2+ years managing engineers, team size roughly 5 to 15.

  • High levels of ownership. Comfortability taking difficult ambiguous problems and driving successful execution.

  • Has built something 0→1 and then scaled it.

  • Willing to be hands-on. This is a six-person team, and everyone at Ramp is a builder.

  • Current enough technically to lead a design review and evaluate an architecture proposal.

  • Strong product judgment and comfort talking to customers.

  • Has owned a transactional system with external dependencies: booking, payments, marketplace, or logistics.

Preferred

  • Corporate travel domain experience, such as: corporate online booking tools (OBTs), integrations with travel content sources (GDS/NDC), and front-end traveler experiences.

  • Enterprise B2B fintech or T&E background.

  • Has rolled out agentic dev tooling to a team, or shipped LLM-backed features.

  • Flexible PTO

  • Centralized home-office equipment ordering

  • Health and wellness stipend

  • Budget for intra-office travel

  • Weekly coffee stipend

United States

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents

  • One Medical annual membership

  • Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

  • Pet insurance

  • In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

Canada

  • Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life

  • Life, AD&D, and disability coverage

  • Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)

United Kingdom

  • Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

 
 
 

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