# Staff Software Engineer, Middle Office

**Company:** [Carta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/carta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $240k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Python, Django, React, Postgres, Jvm, gRPC, AWS, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
**Posted:** 2026-08-18

> Staff Engineer responsible for the long-term technical health and strategic direction of Carta’s Middle Office domain, including distributed systems, architecture, reliability, and AI-enabled engineering practices. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience and demonstrated technical leadership across teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical anchor for the Middle Office business unit and own the long-term technical health and strategic direction of the domain.
- Navigate complex, ambiguous problems and break them into actionable paths.
- Identify systemic failure patterns and drive architectural improvements for scalability and reliability.
- Align multiple teams on major technical decisions across cross-functional domains.
- Define safe, effective ways for engineers to leverage AI tools.
- Set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Track record of high-level technical leadership and influence without formal authority.
- Expertise building distributed systems.
- Ability to guide technical direction across Python/Django, React, Postgres, JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Strong technical communication, vision, and engineering discipline.

## Compensation and Benefits
- $240,000 - $300,000 minimum cash compensation range in San Francisco, CA.
- Equity for full-time roles.
- Exceptional benefits.
- Compensation may vary based on geography, experience, expertise, and other factors.

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