Software Engineer, Financial Products and Infrastructure at Carta
Santa Clara, CA 95050
About the Job
The Company You’ll JoinCarta 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 SolveAt 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.
As a full stack engineer, you'll be collaborating with other engineers in the payments team and will deliver the projects end to end .
You'll need to work with a wide array of stakeholders across the business to determine the most appropriate solution for us to develop, propose technical solutions, build consensus in support of the initiative, execute on the proposals you generate, test those solutions, deploy them into production, monitor and support the solutions as our users get their hands on them.We maintain our own services and own our entire software development life cycle end to end implementing modern dev-ops practices.Our tech stack:Our frontend is written in Typescript / React (hooks).Our code is tested with Jest and linted / auto-formatted with ESLint / prettier.Our designers create wireframes and prototypes in Figma.Our frontend lives within a Frontend Mono-Repo.Our CI provider is CircleCI.Our observability tooling includes Snowplow / Amplitude, Datadog, Sentry.Our backend runs on Python / Django, using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, gRPC.Our infrastructure is maintained as IAC using Terraform.The Team You’ll Work WithYou’ll be joining our Money Movement team within the Financial Products and Infrastructure (FPI) pillar as a Full Stack Software Engineer.
(Please note: this role will be hybrid in our office.)FPI is responsible for all money movement taking place on the Carta platform and ensuring we have the right checks in place to allow genuine customers to do money movement.
We are a small team with an enormous impact cutting across the entire business.
We are highly collaborative and passionate about our craft and the solutions we release. For this reason, technical excellence is not optional.
We are a platform team and interfaces with many core product teams at Carta to help them move money securely.
After the money is moved, the team is also responsible for reconciliation of the moved money. Don't let all of the acronyms scare you away if you are interested, we'll get you spun up on the domain in no time!About YouAt 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.We're looking for engineers with experience delivering value.
You've put important features into production and want to keep shipping more.
You'll be building new features, improving existing code and collaborating with a team of highly driven and motivated individuals.
You're autonomous, able to wrap your head around complex problems and curious to dig into the world of fintech.
You like to ship iteratively and to consistently improve the code, leaving it better than it was when you first read it.
If you want to grow as a Software Engineer, this role is for you!You have at least 4 years of software engineering experience, ideally working on a similar tech stack to Carta.You are a full stack engineer, but are comfortable with infrastructure and can maintain our solutions in a situation where we own our entire lifecycle and engage in modern dev-ops practices.You have built and shipped multiple products from the ground up and know what it takes to build software architecture that can scale to millions of users.You think about the entire SDLC and consider testing, observability, scalability, and monitoring while crafting solutions.You are comfortable writing engineering design proposals, presenting them to engineers for feedback, refining your solution, and then executing on it.SalaryCarta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans.
Our expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:$147,900 - $174,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CAWe are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may vary from the amounts listed based on geography, experience and expertise, and other factors.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. Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on Privacy and CA Candidate Privacy.
Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain.
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 SolveAt 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.
As a full stack engineer, you'll be collaborating with other engineers in the payments team and will deliver the projects end to end .
You'll need to work with a wide array of stakeholders across the business to determine the most appropriate solution for us to develop, propose technical solutions, build consensus in support of the initiative, execute on the proposals you generate, test those solutions, deploy them into production, monitor and support the solutions as our users get their hands on them.We maintain our own services and own our entire software development life cycle end to end implementing modern dev-ops practices.Our tech stack:Our frontend is written in Typescript / React (hooks).Our code is tested with Jest and linted / auto-formatted with ESLint / prettier.Our designers create wireframes and prototypes in Figma.Our frontend lives within a Frontend Mono-Repo.Our CI provider is CircleCI.Our observability tooling includes Snowplow / Amplitude, Datadog, Sentry.Our backend runs on Python / Django, using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, gRPC.Our infrastructure is maintained as IAC using Terraform.The Team You’ll Work WithYou’ll be joining our Money Movement team within the Financial Products and Infrastructure (FPI) pillar as a Full Stack Software Engineer.
(Please note: this role will be hybrid in our office.)FPI is responsible for all money movement taking place on the Carta platform and ensuring we have the right checks in place to allow genuine customers to do money movement.
We are a small team with an enormous impact cutting across the entire business.
We are highly collaborative and passionate about our craft and the solutions we release. For this reason, technical excellence is not optional.
We are a platform team and interfaces with many core product teams at Carta to help them move money securely.
After the money is moved, the team is also responsible for reconciliation of the moved money. Don't let all of the acronyms scare you away if you are interested, we'll get you spun up on the domain in no time!About YouAt 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.We're looking for engineers with experience delivering value.
You've put important features into production and want to keep shipping more.
You'll be building new features, improving existing code and collaborating with a team of highly driven and motivated individuals.
You're autonomous, able to wrap your head around complex problems and curious to dig into the world of fintech.
You like to ship iteratively and to consistently improve the code, leaving it better than it was when you first read it.
If you want to grow as a Software Engineer, this role is for you!You have at least 4 years of software engineering experience, ideally working on a similar tech stack to Carta.You are a full stack engineer, but are comfortable with infrastructure and can maintain our solutions in a situation where we own our entire lifecycle and engage in modern dev-ops practices.You have built and shipped multiple products from the ground up and know what it takes to build software architecture that can scale to millions of users.You think about the entire SDLC and consider testing, observability, scalability, and monitoring while crafting solutions.You are comfortable writing engineering design proposals, presenting them to engineers for feedback, refining your solution, and then executing on it.SalaryCarta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans.
Our expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:$147,900 - $174,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CAWe are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may vary from the amounts listed based on geography, experience and expertise, and other factors.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. Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on Privacy and CA Candidate Privacy.
Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain.