Senior Software Engineer, Carta

Tax Platform

$190-250k

Plus equity + commission if applicable

React

AWS

Docker

TypeScript

Python

Django

Kafka

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)

Software and services platform providing infrastructure for innovators

Job no longer available

Software and services platform providing infrastructure for innovators

1001+ employees

FintechB2BInvesting

Job no longer available

$190-250k

Plus equity + commission if applicable

React

AWS

Docker

TypeScript

Python

Django

Kafka

Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

2-5 days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)

1001+ employees

FintechB2BInvesting

Company mission

To create more owners across the world and revolutionize how capital markets operate. Carta believes that by providing the infrastructure that fuels innovation, it lowers the barriers to entry and moves the world forward into an era of ownership.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have 5+ years of full-stack experience building production systems
You have experience in architecting complex SaaS products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and/or event driven architecture
You are passionate about some elements of our tech stack (Python, Django, React, TypeScript, Kafka, K8s, Docker, AWS, gRPC)
You have a desire to become a product domain expert and are able to refine sometimes ambiguous product requirements to deliver customer value
You are a strong communicator that can communicate with different stakeholders and meet them where they are
You are an active participant and have a strong analytical opinion and position on how software should be engineered
You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future

What the job involves

This role is on the Tax Platform team. The Tax Platform team is a collaborative and passionate group of professionals that includes product managers, engineers, designers, customer support and sales
We’re united by a common mission to create more owners and simplify equity management. We place a high premium on experimentation and validated learning and we focus on being values and mission-driven, not didactic or prescriptive. We are biased toward action and believe in build -> measure -> learn
Our development philosophy closely mirrors Agile Scrum, but we are not afraid to deviate from it. We care about solving customer problems first and engineering problems second
Getting Taxes right is paramount as Carta creates more owners. Your work will directly impact our customers from private to public companies from employees of companies on Carta to administrators of these companies
You’ll be responsible for helping our clients manage IRS compliance (e.g. forms 1099-B, 3921, 3922), ensuring that we are meeting obligations to the SEC and FINRA and that the tax withholding calculations for transactions, from private transactions to public stock sales, on Carta are accurate. Your work will unlock multiple markets for Carta as we increase our liquidity business

Application process

The interview process starts with a call with a member of our recruiting team who will tell you more about the job and the company
Then, you’ll meet the engineering lead for the Tax Platform organization, who will walk you through the specifics of the position, the team structure, what we’re looking for, and of course, answer any questions you will have
This interview will last 45 minutes. Then, there’s a technical pair programming interview where you’ll be working on a practical problem in the tax business in the language of your choice with one of our tax platform engineers, your future team member
Finally, we will schedule you for another four or five meetings with other team members to discuss everything from Carta’s culture to cross-team collaboration and what you can expect, and what is expected from you

Our take

Carta offers an all-in-one equity management platform for startups. This California-based fin-tech makes managing equity within startups simple. As many startups are initially held by private individuals, it can be difficult for shareholders to allocate or offload shares transparently. Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup.

The firm has a host of high-profile backers and investors, including Goldman Sachs, Draper VC, and k9 Ventures, one of the original investors in ridesharing app Lyft. In early 2021 Carta announced a new service, CartaX. A trading platform and funding avenue with regulatory and compliance procedures built-in.

Carta's goal is to create the first 'private stock market for companies.' Other players have recently been making waves, most notably Caplight and Forge, both of which offer shares in private and pre-IPO companies. Now well established as the destination for startups, Carta is on track to maintain a controlling position in this previously untapped industry.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-4% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Aug 2021

$500m

SERIES G

May 2020

$180m

SERIES F

Total funding: $1.1bn

Company benefits

Book reimbursement
Carta Business School
Fertility coverage and parental leave
Liquidity events
Mental health coverage
401K matching
Minimum time off

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Henry Ward

(CEO)

Background in finance and technology, they were the Founder and CEO of Secondsight, a portfolio optimization platform for retail investors before founding Carta.

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