Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Private Capital

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

Job summary

Carta is seeking a Staff Engineer to anchor the Middle Office domain, owning long-term technical health and strategic direction across private equity and VC workflows.

You’ll lead cross-team initiatives and guide architecture in Python/Django, React, and Postgres, defining AI-enabled data ingestion, portfolio valuation, and fund forecasting. The role requires 10+ years of experience and strong leadership for a fast-growing private capital platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with high-level technical leadership.
• Expert in building distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Familiarity with Python/Django, React, and Postgres; comfortable guiding across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own long-term technical health and strategic direction of the Middle Office domain.
• Lead cross-functional teams on architectural decisions and ensure reliable, scalable systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Python

Django

React

PostgreSQL

AWS

JVM languages

gRPC

Leadership

Vision

Experience 10+ years

Tools

Python

Django

React

PostgreSQL

AWS

JVM

gRPC

Job description

Carta is seeking a Staff Engineer to anchor the Middle Office domain, owning long-term technical health and strategic direction across private equity and VC workflows.

You’ll lead cross-team initiatives and guide architecture in Python/Django, React, and Postgres, defining AI-enabled data ingestion, portfolio valuation, and fund forecasting. The role requires 10+ years of experience and strong leadership for a fast-growing private capital platform.