Staff Software Engineer
Carta provides an intelligent platform for private capital operations, connecting data, workflows, and people. Its products support equity management, fund administration, portfolio analytics, compliance, tax, and related services for companies, funds, investors, and legal teams.
About Carta
Carta operates a platform for private capital that helps companies, private equity and venture capital firms, limited partners, and other financial organizations manage portfolios, move money, and model investment scenarios. Its offerings include equity and cap table management, valuations, compensation, liquidity, fund administration, fund tax, SPVs, deal CRM, portfolio valuations, loan operations, LP analytics, compliance, contracts, and attorney-led legal services. Carta combines software, AI capabilities, and expert human services for private capital workflows.
Skills
About the Role
As a Staff Engineer, you'll act as a technical anchor for the business, taking long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains. You'll enter the engineering interview process through a pooled hiring model, focusing on your core strengths and technical craft, before transitioning into a team-matching phase that pairs your skills and interests with the most impactful strategic challenges. You'll navigate ambiguous and poorly defined problems, breaking them into navigable paths for the rest of the organization. You'll identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability. You'll use your cross-functional expertise to align multiple teams on major technical decisions, help define how AI tools are safely and effectively used across the company, and mentor senior engineers to elevate the collective engineering craft.
Requirements
- Expertise in building distributed systems
- Comfort guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)
- Ability to lead through influence rather than authority
- Ability to anticipate future roadblocks and build systems that support long-term business growth
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership
Responsibilities
- Navigate ambiguous and poorly defined problems, breaking them into navigable paths
- Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems
- Drive architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability
- Align multiple teams on major technical decisions using cross-functional expertise
- Define the context and rails that allow the organization to leverage AI tools safely and effectively
- Set the vision for operational excellence
- Mentor senior engineers to raise the collective craft of the organization
Benefits
- Equity for all full time roles
- Exceptional benefits