engineering
Posted 3 days agoSenior Software Engineer II, Design Systems
at Carta
CanadaOn-site
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve the Ink component library: You will build and maintain robust, production-ready React components that blend rigorous 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.
- Coach and advocate for system adoption: You will mentor engineers and designers across the organization, conducting code reviews and design reviews to ensure best practices are met, while gathering feedback to iteratively improve the system’s flexibility and ease of use.
- Design Fluent: You are comfortable working and collaborating inside Figma.
Requirements
- Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.
- Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets.
- We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow. Ink is Carta’s Design System – the underlying foundation for how all of Carta looks and feels.
- You will update our definition of a design system to accommodate 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 never lost in translation.
- Elevate frontend quality and developer velocity: You will drive cross-functional projects to improve animation fluidity, CSS architecture, and system modularity, helping product teams solve 80% of their UI problems instantly so they can focus on the unique 20%.
- 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.