Staff Software Engineer
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 enter the engineering interview process as part of a pooled hiring model, focusing on your core strengths and technical craft rather than a specific team's immediate gap. As a Staff Engineer, you'll be a technical anchor for the business, taking long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains. You'll transition from the general pool to a team-matching phase, where your technical strengths and career interests are matched with impactful, strategic challenges. You'll tackle complex and poorly defined problems, breaking them into navigable paths for the rest of the organization. You'll identify and eliminate failure patterns across systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability. You'll bridge technical gaps between teams and align them on major technical decisions. You'll help define the AI frontier, building the rails that allow everyone to leverage AI tools safely and effectively. You'll also set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership
- Expertise in building distributed systems
- Comfortable guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)
- Experience with Python/Django, React, and Postgres
- Ability to lead through influence rather than authority
Responsibilities
- Navigate ambiguous and complex problems, breaking them into navigable paths for the organization
- Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes
- Align multiple teams on major technical decisions using cross-functional domain knowledge
- Define the context and build the rails for safe and effective AI tool adoption across the company
- Set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers
Benefits
- Equity for all full time roles
- Exceptional benefits