The Team You'll Work With

You’ll enter our engineering interview process as part of a pooled hiring model. We believe in hiring for Carta first, focusing on your core strengths and technical craft rather than a specific team’s immediate gap. 

Staff Engineers at Carta are technical anchors for our business. You don’t just own features, you take long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains. As you move through our process, we’ll transition from the general pool to a team-matching phase. Our goal is to match your unique technical strengths, and personal career interests with our most impactful, strategic challenges. 

Strategic areas you may influence include:

• Integrated CRM & ERP Solutions: Defining and delivering our next-generation CRM as part of a fully integrated ERP for private capital. You’ll build deep, greenfield product and data integrations at the heart of the platform, shaping a system that unifies front-office intelligence with financial and operational workflows. You’ll work closely with the founder of the CRM Product that Carta has acquired and you will influence the product roadmap through your technical leadership.
• AI-Driven Data Ingestion, Processing and Analytics: Accelerating the modernization of private capital markets by integrating advanced AI-powered data ingestion, extraction and analytics. You will help build AI agents that automate document ingestion into data processing pipelines, making portfolio information more accessible, accurate, and actionable for investors and fund managers across our unified platform.
• Engineering Excellence: Defining company-wide standards that reduce operational load and improve developer velocity across dozens of teams.

The Problems You'll Solve

As a Staff Engineer, you are responsible for the long-term technical health and success of your business unit. You’ll work to:

• Navigate Ambiguity: Tackle the most complex and poorly defined problems at Carta, breaking them down into navigable paths for the rest of the organization.
• Champion Systemic Improvement: Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability.
• Bridge Technical Gaps: Use your deep understanding of cross-functional domains to align multiple teams on major technical decisions.
• Define the AI Frontier: Lead the charge in transforming how we build by defining the context and building the rails that allow every person at Carta to leverage AI tools safely and effectively. You’ll help move the organization toward a future where AI amplifies our collective engineering impact.
• Uphold Engineering Standards: Set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers to raise the collective craft of the organization.
  
  

About You

• The Tech Stack: You are an expert in building distributed systems. While our primary stack is Python/Django, React, and Postgres, you should be comfortable guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS). 
• Leadership: You lead through influence rather than authority, acting as a role model for constructive communication and technical discipline.
• Vision: You don't just solve the problem in front of you; you anticipate future roadblocks and build systems that support long-term business growth.
• Experience: We recommend 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership.