Staff Software Engineer, Carrot Fertility

• You thrive in fast-paced environments, take initiative in the face of ambiguity, and balance quick wins with long-term maintainability
• You should be confident in contributing across the stack, including APIs, frontend, and infrastructure
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• You have 2+ years of experience as a Staff or Lead-level engineer with full-stack responsibilities
• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial systems
• Strong technical skills across backend development, systems design, and vendor integration
• Experience integrating with SaaS-based financial tools or payment platforms (e.g. Stripe, Airwallex, Modern Treasury, Plaid)
• You thrive in leading through complexity and ambiguity, adapting to emerging challenges and business demands, while thoughtfully but pragmatically considering tradeoffs to make informed decisions
• You understand that there is not a one-size-fits-all decision engine for how we build Carrot’s product. A blank piece of paper doesn’t scare you, and you are excited to contribute to products from the ground up
• You are comfortable interfacing across an organization, collaborating closely with various functions, and influencing the direction of solutions to meet goals
• You build strong relationships and trust among your team and cross-functionally to enable higher impact of the work you are doing together
• You understand that varying personalities and backgrounds will represent engineering competencies and principles in different ways
• You celebrate your team, and you find the time to provide feedback to your teammates, understanding the value of feedback
• You take pride in our mission: fertility care for all

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Payments to join our Product and Engineering Team
• You will be the technical lead for Carrot’s financial systems, with a focus on payments infrastructure
• In this highly visible and hands-on role, you will architect and build core systems that move money securely and reliably to our global members and customers
• As a foundational member of our financial engineering function, you’ll shape the long-term direction of our payments architecture
• You will own technical outcomes and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions that meet evolving business needs
• You’ll report to a Lead Engineer of a new Payments financial team at Carrot and work closely with them, as well as our VP of Payments, to help define objectives and execute on strategy
• You’ll partner with Product, Finance, and other teams to design and build secure, resilient systems
• Your work will include integrating external SaaS tools and building internal infrastructure that is accurate, compliant, and easy to maintain
• While the focus is backend and systems architecture, this is a full-stack role