Lead and grow the Ramp Travel engineering team, focusing on building and managing travel booking and management systems.
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What you'll build
Must have
Nice to have
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
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
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.
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The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life
Life, AD&D, and disability coverage
Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)
Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
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