Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

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.

The Team You’ll Work With

This role is on the Developer Experience team within our Platform Infrastructure Pillar. We are the levers of productivity for all engineers building a platform that manages upwards of 1 trillion dollars in equity! 

This is a collaborative and passionate group of professionals that includes technical product managers, program managers, and engineers united by the mission of reducing toil and creating leverage for all engineers across the company. We place a high premium on experimentation and validated learning and we focus on being value and mission-driven.

This team is not focused on a single technology or solution, while we do have main areas of expertise, we operate where the problems are. This means learning and using multiple technologies and getting the best out of each one.

 

The Problems You’ll Solve

You will help make the development experience amazing for our engineers as they move faster and more efficiently, from the moment they onboard to shipping services, products, with built-in observability. To provide an ideal developer experience, you will need to:

• Work with many technologies at the same time, being able to understand how and when to use each one to solve a problem,
• Be part of a team that designs scalable and fully-fledged tools to empower engineers at Carta creating leverage, reducing turmoil, 
• Talk to our customers, regularly gathering feedback from program managers and engineers from many teams to create a feasible and incremental technical plan,
• Improve processes and discuss solutions that align with our platform and broader engineering strategies for the short and long-term.
• Grow with your team both on capacity and trajectory by solving challenging problems, measuring progress, and reassessing goals,
• Serve as a savvy technical voice on discussions as someone with holistic expertise on what many teams are doing, what standards they use and how to get more done with less work.

 

The Impact You’ll Have

You will create impact across the entire engineering organization at Carta as a member of the Developer Experience team. This group will create leverage for all platform and product teams at Carta as well as driving adoption of technologies both adopted or created in-house. It is a highly collaborative role where you'll need to partner with leaders in several different areas. Your work will have a high impact on many teams at the same time, if not all. You will also help the organization on technical strategy and building alignment on objectives as well as growing your team.

 

About You

You are customer focused and highly empathetic with significant background in architecting and designing systems, tools, and frameworks used by other engineers. You like to work in a fast paced environment, adapt to requirement changes and to use multiple technologies at once. You have a strong technical background and ability to communicate complex technical, logical, or process issues in a timely, concise, and objective manner. You can make an idea become a successful project, with documentation, automations and metrics. You al