Senior Software Engineer | Carta | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<h2>The Company You’ll Join</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta’s tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">For more information about our offices and culture, check out our <a href="https://carta.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Carta careers page</a>.</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">The Team You’ll Work With</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You will join our R&D team of learners, builders, experts, and leaders in our Fund Administration group. Our group is building the next generation of software for the venture capital industry. We build software to help new funds launch, investors to track analytics and performance, for fund accountants operating the books and financial records for investment funds ranging from $100k through billions under management, and more. We work on a mix of greenfield opportunities and work informed by metrics.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta Fund Administration is redefining venture capital operations. Since 2018, our business has grown faster than any other provider in the space. We work with some of the largest venture capital firms in the world, building software to automate managing their investments. As we head deeper into 2023, our goal is to forge the future of how this industry operates and our hammer is engineering. We are building a distributed system that needs to be configurable enough for the most complex of customers. Its responsibilities are wide: money movement, an event-based general accounting ledger, calculating profit waterfalls, rule-based engines for reconciliations and allocations, workflow orchestrations, investment performance tracking, incorporation tooling… just to name a few.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Interested? Keep reading!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Don’t know what any of these things are? Keep reading!</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Who we are</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We care deeply about our customers: investors, fund managers, CFOs, fund administrators, tax/audit professionals, and others. We are relentless in our pursuit to create leverage for them. We do so by deeply understanding the domain and the jobs to be done. We run towards hard and messy problems. We serve the business, first and foremost, and invest in ourselves and each other in service of that effort. We are owners and that is the only title that matters.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We take our work seriously, but not too seriously. We take equal pride in solving complex business problems like automating allocation calculations, as we do contributing to our Slack emoji portfolio. Stand-ups might include discussions on implementation details for a new Kafka event or our favorite microwavable snacks.</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">About You</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for candidates with years of professional software development experience, specifically with Python. Additionally,</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have strong technical skills and are an excellent collaborator.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You like solving for ambiguity: we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You implement systems large or small that are clear, maintainable, and correct.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You want to build and own your work end-to-end, from the first line of code through initial cohort releases all the way to a full roll out.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You may be passionate about some elements of the Carta tech stack (Python, Django, Javascript, React and Typescript, Postgres, gRPC, Kafka); we do not require experience in all parts of our stack, but do find it to be helpful.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We also look for candidates who are interested in, experienced with, or curious about…</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Accounting or investment management</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Customer relationship management</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Document data extraction</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Tax reporting, financial reporting, and financial auditing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Banking and money movement</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">International accounting</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">The Interview Process</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta follows a standard tech startup interview process, where you will meet with a recruiter and hiring manager first. 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) and virtual interviews. During the process, you can ask questions to people across different parts of the Fund Administration team to learn what kind of work we do and how it lines up with your interests.</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Salary</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta’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:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">$175,950 – $207,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; or New York City, NY</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">$167,153 – $196,650 in Seattle, WA</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our <a href="https://carta.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">careers page</a> to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.</p>
<h2>Important Security Notice for Candidates</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our company has been targeted by individuals creating fake domains similar to ours to scam prospects and candidates. <strong class=" font-semibold">Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain</strong>. Be cautious of any requests for sensitive information or payments outside of our official channels. For more information about this type of scam, please review <a href="https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2023/08/scammers-impersonate-well-known-companies-recruit-fake-jobs-linkedin-and-other-job-platforms" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the guidelines </a>provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you encounter any suspicious activity, please report it immediately to <a href="mailto:recruiting-systems@carta.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruiting-systems@carta.com</a>.</p>
<h2>Awards and Acknowledgements</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/?sh=2b8dd7e27d9c" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies</a>, <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2020" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Fast Company’s Most Innovative</a> list, and <a href="https://www.inc.com/inc5000/2020" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies</a>. We’ve also been recognized as a <a href="https://builtin.com/awards/us/2023/best-places-to-work" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S.</a>, a <a href="https://www.themuse.com/advice/vibe-awards-2022-vacation-time-off-benefits" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category</a> and certified as a <a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7036977" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Great Place to Work</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on <a href="https://carta.com/privacy/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Privacy</a> and <a href="https://carta.com/privacy/candidate/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CA Candidate Privacy.</a></em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta’s tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">For more information about our offices and culture, check out our <a href="https://carta.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Carta careers page</a>.</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">The Team You’ll Work With</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You will join our R&D team of learners, builders, experts, and leaders in our Fund Administration group. Our group is building the next generation of software for the venture capital industry. We build software to help new funds launch, investors to track analytics and performance, for fund accountants operating the books and financial records for investment funds ranging from $100k through billions under management, and more. We work on a mix of greenfield opportunities and work informed by metrics.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta Fund Administration is redefining venture capital operations. Since 2018, our business has grown faster than any other provider in the space. We work with some of the largest venture capital firms in the world, building software to automate managing their investments. As we head deeper into 2023, our goal is to forge the future of how this industry operates and our hammer is engineering. We are building a distributed system that needs to be configurable enough for the most complex of customers. Its responsibilities are wide: money movement, an event-based general accounting ledger, calculating profit waterfalls, rule-based engines for reconciliations and allocations, workflow orchestrations, investment performance tracking, incorporation tooling… just to name a few.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Interested? Keep reading!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Don’t know what any of these things are? Keep reading!</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Who we are</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We care deeply about our customers: investors, fund managers, CFOs, fund administrators, tax/audit professionals, and others. We are relentless in our pursuit to create leverage for them. We do so by deeply understanding the domain and the jobs to be done. We run towards hard and messy problems. We serve the business, first and foremost, and invest in ourselves and each other in service of that effort. We are owners and that is the only title that matters.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We take our work seriously, but not too seriously. We take equal pride in solving complex business problems like automating allocation calculations, as we do contributing to our Slack emoji portfolio. Stand-ups might include discussions on implementation details for a new Kafka event or our favorite microwavable snacks.</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">About You</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are looking for candidates with years of professional software development experience, specifically with Python. Additionally,</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have strong technical skills and are an excellent collaborator.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You like solving for ambiguity: we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You implement systems large or small that are clear, maintainable, and correct.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You want to build and own your work end-to-end, from the first line of code through initial cohort releases all the way to a full roll out.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You may be passionate about some elements of the Carta tech stack (Python, Django, Javascript, React and Typescript, Postgres, gRPC, Kafka); we do not require experience in all parts of our stack, but do find it to be helpful.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We also look for candidates who are interested in, experienced with, or curious about…</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Accounting or investment management</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Customer relationship management</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Document data extraction</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Tax reporting, financial reporting, and financial auditing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Banking and money movement</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">International accounting</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">The Interview Process</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta follows a standard tech startup interview process, where you will meet with a recruiter and hiring manager first. 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) and virtual interviews. During the process, you can ask questions to people across different parts of the Fund Administration team to learn what kind of work we do and how it lines up with your interests.</p>
<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">Salary</strong></h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Carta’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:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">$175,950 – $207,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; or New York City, NY</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">$167,153 – $196,650 in Seattle, WA</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our <a href="https://carta.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">careers page</a> to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.</p>
<h2>Important Security Notice for Candidates</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our company has been targeted by individuals creating fake domains similar to ours to scam prospects and candidates. <strong class=" font-semibold">Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com domain</strong>. Be cautious of any requests for sensitive information or payments outside of our official channels. For more information about this type of scam, please review <a href="https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2023/08/scammers-impersonate-well-known-companies-recruit-fake-jobs-linkedin-and-other-job-platforms" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the guidelines </a>provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). If you encounter any suspicious activity, please report it immediately to <a href="mailto:recruiting-systems@carta.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">recruiting-systems@carta.com</a>.</p>
<h2>Awards and Acknowledgements</h2>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/?sh=2b8dd7e27d9c" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies</a>, <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2020" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Fast Company’s Most Innovative</a> list, and <a href="https://www.inc.com/inc5000/2020" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies</a>. We’ve also been recognized as a <a href="https://builtin.com/awards/us/2023/best-places-to-work" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S.</a>, a <a href="https://www.themuse.com/advice/vibe-awards-2022-vacation-time-off-benefits" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category</a> and certified as a <a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7036977" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Great Place to Work</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on <a href="https://carta.com/privacy/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Privacy</a> and <a href="https://carta.com/privacy/candidate/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CA Candidate Privacy.</a></em></p>