Carta 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 Team You'll Work With
You’ll be joining the Fund Admin Documents team as a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer.
Our team is focused on creating a centralized platform for managing the large quantity of documents that our fund administration clients need to use to effectively manage their venture capital funds, so that our clients have visibility into the documents which serve as a source of truth for the management of their funds. In addition, we aim to leverage machine learning in the analysis and extraction of data from these documents in order to automate and streamline various processes that would otherwise be manual and time-consuming, such as audits and new client onboarding.
We are a small team with the potential to make a major impact in how we play to win the fund administration market. We are a highly collaborative and dynamic team that values technical excellence and delivering quality solutions for our customers. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’ll find it in the Fund Admin Documents team.
The Problems You'll Solve
As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on the Fund Admin Documents team, you will:
- Work closely with our product manager, designer, and other engineers on the team to solve major pain points and improve the quality and efficiency of our fund administration services
- Work with a wide array of stakeholders across the business to determine desired outcomes, propose technical solutions, build consensus in support of the initiative, execute, implement, and test your solutions, and deploy and monitor these solutions to real customers in production
- Implement and improve our backend APIs and services to power a centralized documents platform for Carta’s fund administration clients
- Create and customize our frontend webpages and user interfaces for both internal and external customers to view and manage fund documents
- Maintain a high standard of both quality and impact of your technical contributions and act as a positive influence on other engineers across the team and engineering organization
Our tech stack:
- Our frontend is written in Typescript / React (hooks), tested with Jest, and linted with ESLint
- Our backend runs on Python / Django, using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and gRPC, and is tested with unit tests and end-to-end regression tests
- Our designers create wireframes and prototypes in Figma
- Our frontend lives within a Frontend Mono-Repo
- Our continuous integration provider is CircleCI
- Our observability tooling includes Snowplow / Amplitude, Datadog, and Sentry
- Our infrastructure is maintained via infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
About You
At 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 ours
- You are a full stack engineer - comfortable with maintaining the backend stack powering our solutions as well as the frontend code making delightful experiences for our users
- You are familiar with the entire software development lifecycle and always 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
- You have built and shipped multiple products from the ground up and know what it takes to build efficient and scalable software architecture
Salary
Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:
- $175,950 - $207,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; New York, NY
- $167,153 - $196,650 in Seattle, WA
Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.
Disclosures:
- 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.
- Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
- 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 or @carta-external.com domain.
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Carta Seattle, Washington, USA Office
821 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA, United States, 98104
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