Senior Software Engineer II, Design Systems The Company You’ll Join Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit. Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 9,000+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure. Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - it’s a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital. At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. Ink is Carta’s Design System – the underlying foundation for how all of Carta looks and feels. Our focus is to make Financial Technology safe, intuitive, performant, and fun. As a Senior Design Systems Engineer, you’ll work to: Architect and evolve the Ink component library: You will build and maintain robust, production-ready React components that blend design system standards, intuitive developer ergonomics, and extensible API design. Redefine the Design System for the Agentic Age: You will lead the R&D on how our design system evolves to support AI-driven interfaces and generative workflows, ensuring Ink is optimized for both human developers and AI agents. Bridge the gap between design and code: You will act as a technical translator, taking concepts from Figma and turning them into performant UI code, ensuring that the polish of the design is preserved. Elevate frontend quality and developer velocity: You will drive cross-functional projects to improve animation fluidity, CSS architecture, and system modularity, helping product teams focus on higher-leverage work. Coach and advocate for system adoption: You will mentor engineers and designers, conducting code reviews and design reviews to ensure best practices, while gathering feedback to iteratively improve the system’s flexibility and ease of use. The Team You'll Work With You’ll be joining our Design System team “Ink.” Ink fuses visual design, user experience best practices, and modern React architecture to create tools that enable teams to ship consistent, high-quality, 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 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 and eager to explore how component APIs, tokens, and documentation can support AI development patterns. Systematic Thinker: You replace custom, one-off UI with modular, reusable solutions and can articulate trade-offs of API design decisions to engineers and designers. React & CSS Expert: You possess deep knowledge of React, CSS, and animation technologies. You write code that is a joy for others to use. Design Fluent: You are comfortable working inside Figma and can prototype complex UI behaviors to validate concepts before production. Champion of Quality: You have a polish-oriented mindset with attention to accessibility, performance, and visual fidelity. 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 compensation range for this role will vary based on geography, experience, and expertise. We are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may differ accordingly. Disclosures: We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email. Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion is voluntary. Any information provided will be confidential and handled in accordance with applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr