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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Financial Products and Infrastructure

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The Company You’ll Join

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 Problems You’ll Solve

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 a full stack engineer, you'll be the owner of our application end to end and will drive our implementations going forward. 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 With

You’ll be joining our Risk team within the Financial Products and Infrastructure (FPI) pillar as a Senior 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. These checks are in the form of KYC and AML processes. Solutions that you craft will likely have millions of dollars moving through them as soon as they are released. Our team (Risk), is charged with ensuring that all of these financial transactions are in regulatory compliance to protect Carta and its clients. 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 . Know your customer/business is the process of verifying the identity of our customers and better understanding how risky they may be. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is the process of ensuring that every single transaction which moves through the Carta platform is above board and in compliance.

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 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 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.

 

The Interview Process

First, one of our recruiters will call you to tell you more about the job and company. You'll then meet an Engineering leader who will discuss your opportunities at Carta and explore your experience, skills, and goals. We’ll then ask you to show off your skills with a real-world take home exercise (we do not do LeetCode-style interviews, no one will quiz you on writing a doubly-linked list). Finally, you'll have  back-to-back conversations with Carta team members on a wide range of topics, including communications and collaboration, coding efficacy and techniques, and systems design.

 

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.

 

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