Tech Lead, Ramp Travel

New York, NY (HQ) · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 22, 2026

At a glance

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

The Ramp Travel team builds the travel booking and management platform, including flight and hotel search, booking, and an agentic travel assistant.
This role involves leading the engineering team to scale the product's sophistication and global reach while managing complex integrations with third-party suppliers.
The Tech Lead will own delivery across travel management surfaces and partner with cross-functional teams to support enterprise travel commitments.

Lead, mentor, coach, and grow the Ramp Travel engineering team.
Own delivery across travel management surfaces including search, inventory, quoting, repricing, checkout, policy evaluation, loyalty, and post-booking servicing.
Ensure reliability and correctness of systems dependent on third-party supplier APIs, GDS, aggregator content, and TMC/OBT integrations.
Partner with Product, Design, Ops, Partnerships, and Sales on enterprise travel commitments.
Set team practices for AI-assisted development and ship agentic booking features.
Hire and scale the engineering team.

2+ years managing engineers, with team size roughly 5 to 15.
High levels of ownership and ability to drive execution on ambiguous problems.
Experience building something 0 to 1 and scaling it.
Willingness to be hands-on with development.
Technical proficiency to lead design reviews and evaluate architecture proposals.
Strong product judgment and comfort talking to customers.
Experience owning a transactional system with external dependencies such as booking, payments, marketplace, or logistics.

Corporate travel domain experience (OBTs, GDS, NDC, front-end traveler experiences).
Enterprise B2B fintech or T&E background.
Experience rolling out agentic dev tooling to a team.
Experience shipping LLM-backed features.