Senior Staff Engineer - AI-Driven Middle Office

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Carta is hiring a Staff Engineer to anchor the Middle Office’s long-term technical health and strategic direction. You’ll drive scalable architecture across distributed systems, guide cross-functional teams, and set standards for AI-enabled tooling and portfolio data workflows.

You will work on private equity/VC workflows, portfolio company data ingestion, valuation, and forecasting models, collaborating with engineers, product, and finance to deliver robust, secure systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with leadership.
• Expertise in distributed systems and full-stack capabilities across Python/Django, React, and Postgres.
• Ability to guide across JVM, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own long-term technical health and strategic direction for the Middle Office.
• Lead systemic improvements and architectural changes for scalability and reliability.
• Bridge gaps between cross-functional teams to align technical decisions.
• Define AI frameworks and rails to safely enable AI tools across Carta.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise overall engineering craft.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python/Django

React

PostgreSQL

JVM

gRPC

AWS

Leadership

Vision

10+ years

Job description

Carta is hiring a Staff Engineer to anchor the Middle Office’s long-term technical health and strategic direction. You’ll drive scalable architecture across distributed systems, guide cross-functional teams, and set standards for AI-enabled tooling and portfolio data workflows.

You will work on private equity/VC workflows, portfolio company data ingestion, valuation, and forecasting models, collaborating with engineers, product, and finance to deliver robust, secure systems.