Senior Software Engineer I

The Company You’ll Join

Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.

Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.

Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.

Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems You’ll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow.

Most of Carta's long-term success will come from products and technology that have yet to be built. Here is an incomplete list of how you might contribute:

• Building customer-facing enterprise tools for equity administration
• Creating data pipelines for asynchronously aggregating financial reports
• Reinforcing service resiliency, availability, and fault tolerance
• Streamlining the creation of new features and services within our ecosystem
• Integrating with third-party vendors to provide reliable, accurate, and timely transfers of billions of dollars per year through Carta's platform
• Refactoring existing features into standalone event-driven services
• And others for you to discover and champion
• You'll work directly with internal and external stakeholders to ensure we're building the right thing at the right time with the right people. Your contributions will enable Carta's mission to make equity more available and accessible to everyone.

The Team You’ll Work With

You will join our engineering team of passionate learners, builders, experts, and leaders to define and implement Carta's next generation of products, platforms, and infrastructure. You'll collaborate closely with key stakeholders in Product, Business, and Design. Carta's software engineers contribute in many different ways: sometimes we are shipping new product features, architecting simple and maintainable systems, or training the organization on new technology solutions. You will make your own mark here.

About You

You’ll join Carta as a Senior Software Engineer, where you’ll collaborate with your peers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver impactful features. In this role, you’ll translate project requirements into actionable tasks, ensuring that applications are optimized for performance, scalability, and maintainability. You’ll also mentor other engineers, sharing your expertise to foster growth and elevate the team’s capabilities.

• Full-Stack Expertise: You have experience working with a stack similar to Carta’s, including Django, Python, React, and TypeScript.
• Software Lifecycle Focus: You think about the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), from writing testable code to implementing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Mentorship and Leadership: Beyond delivering features, you guide and support others, helping them deliver value while demonstrating traits of leadership.
• Documentation and Communication: You have experience writing design proposals, documenting solutions, and presenting ideas for feedback. You’re comfortable refining solutions collaboratively and driving them to execution.
• Proactive Problem Solver: You identify challenges your team faces, propose solutions, and take ownership of delivering impactful outcomes.

At Carta, you’re not just an employee. You’re a builder who is creating infrastructure that accelerates innovation and empowers more ownership. Cartans are helpful, relentless, unconventional and kind; representing Carta’s Identity Traits. They work collaboratively and cross functionally to challenge the status quo; working towards a common goal of creating more owners in the private markets.

• You have experience working as a full stack engineer. Experience with Django, Python, React, and TypeScript is a plus, but not mandatory.
• You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• You have strong technical skills and are an excellent collaborator.
• You have experience writing design proposals, documenting solutions, and presenting ideas for feedback. You’re comfortable refining solutions collaboratively and driving them to execution.
• You implement systems that are clear, maintainable, and correct.
• You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.
• You identify challenges your team faces, propose solutions, and take ownership of delivering impactful outcomes.
• You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.
• You have good communication skills in English.
• You may be familiar with some elements of the Carta tech stack (Python, Django, Java, Javascript, React, Postgres, GRPC, Kafka)

The Interview Process

First, one of our recruiters will call you to tell you more about the job and company. You'll then meet an Engineering leader who will discuss your opportunities at Carta and explore your experience, skills, and goals. We’ll then ask you to show off your skills with a real-world take home exercise (we do not do LeetCode-style interviews, no one will quiz you on writing a doubly-linked list). Finally, you'll have back-to-back conversations with Carta team members on a wide range of topics, including communications and collaboration, coding efficacy and techniques, and systems design.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing 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.

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