Senior Software Engineer

The Team You’ll Work With

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.

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.

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Who we are

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. 

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.

About You

We are looking for candidates with years of professional software development experience, specifically with Python. Additionally,

• You have strong technical skills and are an excellent collaborator.
• You like solving for ambiguity: we’ll look to you for ideas on how to solve problems.
• You implement systems large or small that are clear, maintainable, and correct. 
• You are excited by opportunities to both break ground on new projects and provide fresh perspective onto past implementations.
• 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.
• You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future.
• 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. 

We also look for candidates who are interested in, experienced with, or curious about…

• Accounting or investment management
• Customer relationship management
• Document data extraction
• Tax reporting, financial reporting, and financial auditing
• Banking and money movement
• International accounting

The Interview Process

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.