Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience
Carta operates an intelligent platform for private capital markets, connecting data, workflows, and people across portfolio management, cap tables, fund administration, and tax services. It serves private equity firms, venture capital firms, private corporations, and limited partners.
About Carta
Carta provides a platform that helps players in private capital—including private equity firms, venture capital firms, private corporations, and limited partners—manage portfolios, move money, and model the future with unprecedented connectivity. Its offerings combine cutting-edge AI with expert human service, including cap table management, fund administration, tax services (such as Carta Fund Tax and QSBS attestation), 409A valuations, compliance, and reporting tools. The platform emphasizes real-time visibility, agentic intelligence for productivity, strategic modeling for scenario planning, and end-to-end collaboration between firms, companies, investors, and partners. Carta serves a large client base including over 1.7 million equity holders, 50,000+ companies, and 9,000+ funds and SPVs, with clients ranging from venture capital funds to global private corporations operating across multiple countries.
Skills
About the Role
You'll join a lean team focused on removing friction from the software delivery lifecycle so engineers can do their best work. You'll build the MCP servers, agents, and plugin infrastructure that power AI-native development, design agents to solve specific developer problems, architect CI/CD pipelines, and build the infrastructure other engineers rely on. You'll also mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar through code reviews and architectural guidance.
Requirements
- 8+ years in platform, backend, or fullstack engineering
- Shipped production LLM systems such as MCP servers or clients, AI extensions, connectors, or agents solving real problems
- Experience building platforms other engineers build on top of, with strong focus on API design and developer ergonomics
- Proficiency in Python or Java
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Docker
- Experience with cloud-native technologies such as AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
- Familiarity with secrets management tooling such as Vault, Cloudsmith is a plus
- Awareness of least-privilege, token lifecycle, and supply chain security risks in developer tooling design
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems and deliver with minimal guidance
Responsibilities
- Build MCP servers, agents, and plugin infrastructure that Carta's AI native development runs on
- Define the patterns other engineers follow
- Design and ship agents purpose-built to solve specific developer problems across the software delivery lifecycle
- Architect and drive CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, and deployment to accelerate delivery across R&D
- Build the infrastructure AI tooling runs on so other engineers can build on top of it with confidence
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews and architectural guidance
Benefits
- Equity for all full time roles
- Exceptional benefits