Senior Software Engineer II, Design Systems

The Team You'll Work With You’ll be joining our Design System team “Ink” . Ink is where visual design, user experience best practices, and modern React architecture fuse together to create a beautiful set of tools that allow teams to create great products fast. Our ultimate purpose is to enable great design at scale. We are a team that sits at the intersection of design and engineering; we build the foundational components, tooling, and documentation that empower hundreds of Carta engineers and designers to ship consistent, high-quality, and accessible interfaces. About You We are seeking an opinionated but humble builder who cares deeply about the craft of software and the details of design. You have likely built or maintained a component library before and understand the unique challenges of serving other developers as your primary customers. 7+ years of relevant experience recommended: Specifically in frontend engineering with a strong focus on design systems, AI-assisted development, or UI infrastructure. AI-Forward Innovator: You are actively pushing the limits of what design systems can do with AI. You are eager to explore how component APIs, tokens, and documentation can be optimized to support AI development patterns and the future of agentic UI. Systematic Thinker: You have a track record of replacing custom, one-off UI with modular, reusable solutions, and you can articulate the trade-offs of API design decisions to both engineers and designers. React & CSS Expert: You possess deep, expert-level knowledge of React (modern patterns, hooks, context), CSS (architecture, scalability), and animation technologies such as CSS Animations, Framer, and D3. You write code that is not just functional, but a joy for other developers to use. Design Fluent: You are comfortable working and collaborating inside Figma. You understand the nuances of interaction design and can prototype complex UI behaviors to validate concepts before they reach production. Champion of Quality: You have a "polish-oriented" mindset. You sweat the details on accessibility, performance, and visual fidelity, ensuring that our system sets a high bar for the rest of the company. Salary Carta’s

compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional

benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our expected cash

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