Tech Lead, Ramp Travel
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.