Senior Front End Engineer, FPI

The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. 

Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two billion people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $15B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta’s platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally. 

Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

This role is/is NOT eligible for International Permanent Transfer 

 

The Team You’ll Work With

You’ll be joining our Risk team within the Financial Products and Infrastructure (FPI) pillar as a Senior Front End Software Engineer. 

FPI is responsible for all money movement taking place on the Carta platform. Solutions that you craft will likely have millions of dollars moving through them as soon as they are released. Our team (Risk), is charged with ensuring that all of these financial transactions are in regulatory compliance to protect Carta and its clients. We are a small team with an enormous impact cutting across the entire business. We are highly collaborative and passionate about our craft and the solutions we release.  For this reason, technical excellence is not optional. We are a platform team and our customers are primarily other teams within Carta. Know your customer/business is the process of verifying the identity of our customers and better understanding how risky they may be. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is the process of ensuring that every single transaction which moves through the Carta platform is above board and in compliance.

Don't let all of the acronyms scare you away if you are interested, we'll get you spun up on the domain in no time!

 

The Problems You’ll Solve

As a frontend engineer, you'll be the owner of our frontend solutions and will drive our implementations going forward. You'll need to work with a wide array of stakeholders across the business to determine the most appropriate solution for us to develop, propose technical solutions, build consensus in support of the initiative, execute on the proposals you generate, test those solutions, deploy them  into production, monitor and support the solutions as our users get their hands on them.

We maintain our own services and own our entire software development life cycle  end to end implementing modern dev-ops practices.

Our tech stack:

• Our frontend is written in Typescript / React (hooks).
• Our code is tested with Jest and linted / auto-formatted with ESLint / prettier.
• Our designers create wireframes and prototypes in Figma.
• Our frontend lives within a Frontend Mono-Repo.
• Our CI provider is CircleCI.
• Our observability tooling includes Snowplow / Amplitude, Datadog, Sentry.
• Our backend runs on Python / Django, using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, gRPC.
• Our infrastructure is maintained as IAC using Terraform.

 

About You

At Carta, you’re not just an employee. You’re a builder who is creating infrastructure that accelerates innovation and empowers more ownership. Cartans are helpful, relentless, unconventional and kind; representing Carta’s Identity Traits. They work collaboratively and cross functionally to challenge the status quo; working towards a common goal of creating more owners in the private markets.

We're looking for engineers with experience delivering value. You've put important features into production and want to keep shipping more. You'll be b