Carta is a software company that connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit.

Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.

The Team You’ll Work With

You’ll enter our engineering interview process as part of a pooled hiring model. We’re excited to meet people who are energized by complex, ambiguous problems.

The Problems You’ll Solve

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will lead technically complex projects and serve as a multiplier for your team.

• Drive Implementation: Lead the execution of complex technical projects, driving them from concept to production while maintaining high standards for performance and reliability.

• Simplify Systems: Dig deep into our architecture to identify opportunities to simplify code and infrastructure, prioritizing changes that have a measurable business impact.

• Leverage Modern Tooling: Use the best AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate your workflow, improve code quality, and spend more of your time solving the high-level logic and unconventional problems.

• Foster Growth: Act as a mentor and coach, raising the technical bar for your peers through diligent PR reviews and architectural guidance.

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product and design to ensure we are building the right solution for the user, not just following a specification.

About You

• The Tech Stack: You have experience with (or a desire to learn) our core technologies: Python, Django, React, Postgres, and Kafka. We also utilize Java, gRPC, and AWS.

• Execution: You can break down complex user stories into actionable tasks and execute them with minimal guidance.

• Strategic Mindset: You understand the 'why' behind your code and can articulate technical trade-offs to stakeholders.

• Experience: We recommend 8+ years of professional software engineering experience for this level.

Salary

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:

• $181,050 - $213,000 CAD in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will partner with engineers, scientists, product managers, and business teams to identify high-leverage opportunities and build common solutions. You will integrate open-source, enterprise, and SaaS technologies into our evolving stack, design and ship components of a new platform architecture to enable multi-tenancy, fine-grained data governance, workload isolation, and scaling.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading projects end-to-end and contributing to impactful platform initiatives
• Partnering with engineers, scientists, product managers, and business teams to identify high-leverage opportunities and build common solutions
• Integrating open-source, enterprise, and SaaS technologies into our evolving stack
• Designing and shipping components of a new platform architecture to enable multi-tenancy, fine-grained data governance, workload isolation, and scaling
• Contributing to the growth of our Data Lakehouse platforms, enabling well-governed data products for analytical and operational use cases
• Continuously improving the Research Platform to meet our Science's evolving needs for experimentation, ML Ops, data processing, and analysis
• Helping shape how we approach data modeling, context engineering, and emerging semantic layers to make data easier to discover and use
• Advocating for a product mindset within Platform and Data engineering at Freenome, focusing on developer effectiveness and platform usability
• Exploring and piloting AI-assisted or agentic workflows to enhance individual and team productivity, sharing learnings with the broader organization
• Collaborating through system design, code reviews, and pairing, promoting a strong team culture of accountability, learning, and psychological safety
• Supporting platform users to troubleshoot issues and unblock critical work

Requirements include:

• 6+ years of experience building and operating highly reliable production software systems, preferably in platform engineering teams or similar
• Proficiency with Python and experience with one or more other high-level programming languages
• Strong knowledge of Linux fundamentals, including networking and containerization
• Hands-on experience operating cloud services, storage, and compute using IaC with at least one major cloud provider, preferably Azure or GCP
• Operational experience managing and optimizing large Kubernetes clusters, preferably in single or multi-cluster environments with thousands of nodes
• A pragmatic approach to reliability, observability, performance tuning, and operational excellence
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Comfort with cross-functional collaboration and navigating tradeoffs
• BS or higher in computer science or a related technical field, or comparable experience

Nice to have includes columnar data processing, open lakehouse technologies, and table formats, supporting researchers, data scientists, AI/ML teams, flyte or other modern workflow orchestrators, everything as code approach to infrastructure, policies, data, operating production systems in Microsoft Azure, open-source contribution and maintenance.

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