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CartaCartaSan Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer responsible for long-term technical health of business units at Carta, tackling complex problems, driving architectural improvements, and defining AI integration standards. Requires 10+ years experience building distributed systems and leading through influence.

240k – 300k/yr
On-site10+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Navigate ambiguity by tackling the most complex and poorly defined problems, breaking them down for the organization.
  • Champion systemic improvement by identifying and eliminating failure patterns across systems, driving architectural changes for scalability and reliability.
  • Bridge technical gaps using deep cross-functional domain knowledge to align teams on major technical decisions.
  • Define the AI frontier by building context and rails for safe, effective AI tool usage across the organization.
  • Uphold engineering standards by setting the vision for operational excellence and mentoring senior engineers.

Requirements

  • Expert in building distributed systems.
  • Comfortable guiding technical direction across Python/Django, React, Postgres, 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 supporting long-term business growth.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience shaping platform data ecosystems for a single source of truth.
  • Background in financial systems architecture, such as management fee accounting or multi-currency transactions.
  • Track record defining company-wide engineering excellence standards to improve developer velocity.

Skills

PythonDjangoReactPostgresjvmgRPCAWSDistributed Systems
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