At Carta, we’re building the future of equity and ownership. We’ve changed how companies, investors, and employees manage equity. Now, we’re transforming how capital markets operate. Our goal is to create more owners and increase transparency and liquidity for shareholders. More than 800,000 investors, law firms, and employees use our platform, and we manage over $575B in equity.Carta is looking for senior full stack and back end engineers to work in the financial payments team to build out scalable next generation platforms that will manage platforms in a high growth financial services company.About Us:

The Carta Financial Products teams are looking for talented engineers to help us work on our financial products stack. We’re in the beginning stages of architecting and building new platforms and greenfield applications. Carta is an innovative enterprise startup that is fast growing, where you will have the opportunity to make a difference and expand your skill set. We are looking for people interested in developing highly scalable, low latency and fault tolerant financial platforms and experiences to expand the Carta product offering into new areas. All of our engineers are part of the architecture, design, build and deployment of well crafted code. If you want to put your engineering talents to work in a team of highly skilled, collaborative, fun and diverse engineers, we’re the place to be.

About You:

You care about craftsmanship and solid engineering. You are accountable for your own results. You build for availability and scalability. You enjoy sharing your knowledge with others and mentoring, but are always open to learning something from people of all levels. You debate with your peers respectfully and with an open mind. You are a good technical lead and communicate clearly with others. You can balance design complexity with maintainability and determine how to incrementally develop and phase delivery. You like learning new technology and keep up to date with your skills, but you don’t adopt technology unless it will solve a real problem.

Responsibilities 

• Architecture, design and coding of highly available, secure, and scalable financial platforms
• Test driven development, high levels of code coverage and automation
• Peer code review
• Logging and monitoring of platforms for proactive assurance of availability and performance
• Measuring results of system changes through metrics,, both in speed and in business value 

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field or equivalent practical experience
• Expert Java or Python Developer 
• Object oriented development practices, strong design and architecture skills, knowledge of design patterns and when they are best applied
• Experience in development environments with GitHub, containerization, and service deployment in the Cloud 
• Test driven development experience, unit test and automation of test cases for CI/CD pipeline

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in Payments or Financial product domains
• ReactJS, NodeJS, Javascript or other comparable front end technologies

Carta is a Series E company and is backed by top-tier VCs like Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital, and more.

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, connect with us via email at [email protected]. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

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