Senior Software Engineer II, Upmarket Private Equity

About the position

At 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 Carta expands beyond Venture Capital and into Private Equity, as a Senior Software Engineer we’ll need you to help define requirements and build solutions for products that bridge the gap for our Private Equity clients. The team you will join has discovered an immense opportunity in Private Equity. Powered by our cap table product, we have developed real-time, intelligent insights into their investments and waterfall distribution. We are expanding quickly to fulfill the demands of this market and we need your help.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and code highly available, secure, and scalable financial platforms
• Adhere to test-driven development (TDD), maintain high levels of code coverage and automation
• Conduct timely and thoughtful peer code review
• Leverage logging and monitoring of platforms to improve observability
• Instrument system performance and business metrics
• Mentor and grow junior developers

Requirements

• 6+ years of full-stack or backend engineering experience
• Desire to become a product domain expert and refine ambiguous product requirements to deliver customer value
• Experience working with complex SaaS products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices
• Passion for some elements of our tech stack (ReactJS, Java, Python, Datadog, REST / GRPC, Kafka, K8s, AWS)
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work with stakeholders across engineering, product, business and marketing and own an initiative end-to-end
• Eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future
• Empathetic and see psychological safety and diversity as core foundations of a thriving team

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• Equity for all full time roles
• Exceptional benefits
• Commissions plans for applicable roles