Staff Software Engineer Investors
Carta provides an intelligent platform for private capital operations, connecting data, workflows, and people.
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
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead long-term technical direction for complex distributed systems and break ambiguous problems into clear paths forward. You will improve scalability and reliability across multiple systems, align teams on major technical decisions, set operational standards, mentor senior engineers, and establish safe, effective ways to use AI tools.
Requirements
- Expertise in building distributed systems
- Experience with Python, Django, React, and Postgres
- Ability to guide technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and AWS cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience leading through influence and constructive communication
- Ability to anticipate future roadblocks and build for long-term growth
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Track record of high-level technical leadership
Responsibilities
- Navigate and break down complex, poorly defined problems
- Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems
- Drive architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability
- Align multiple teams on major technical decisions
- Define safe and effective practices for using AI tools
- Set the vision for operational excellence
- Mentor senior engineers
Benefits
- Equity for full-time roles