Staff Software Engineer

Carta•San Francisco, CA

12d

About The Position

Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private equity and private credit. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work, Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO replaces outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers with a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital. Staff Engineers at Carta are technical anchors for our business. You don’t just own features, you take long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains. Strategic areas you may influence include: Platform Data Ecosystem, Financial Systems Architecture, and Engineering Excellence. You’ll enter our engineering interview process as part of a pooled hiring model. We believe in hiring for Carta first, focusing on your core strengths and technical craft rather than a specific team’s immediate gap. As you move through our process, we’ll transition from the general pool to a team-matching phase. Our goal is to match your unique technical strengths, and personal career interests with our most impactful, strategic challenges.

Requirements

Expert in building distributed systems.
Comfortable guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS).
Lead through influence rather than authority, acting as a role model for constructive communication and technical discipline.
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.

Nice To Haves

Primary stack is Python/Django, React, and Postgres.

Responsibilities

Navigate Ambiguity: Tackle the most complex and poorly defined problems at Carta, breaking them down into navigable paths for the rest of the organization.
Champion Systemic Improvement: Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability.
Bridge Technical Gaps: Use your deep understanding of cross-functional domains to align multiple teams on major technical decisions.
Define the AI Frontier: Lead the charge in transforming how we build by defining the context and building the rails that allow every person at Carta to leverage AI tools safely and effectively.
Uphold Engineering Standards: Set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers to raise the collective craft of the organization.