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Salary: CAD 205,600 - 257,000 / annual
Carta is a connected platform and AI-native ecosystem for private capital, serving 55,000 companies, 1.8M+ equity holders across 160+ countries, and managing $250B+ in assets under management. The company provides software, services, and legal infrastructure for founders managing equity, fund managers handling administration and reporting, and legal teams closing transactions.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical anchor for the business, taking long-term accountability for technical health and strategic direction across key domains. You'll work through a pooled hiring model initially, then transition to team-matching based on your technical strengths and career interests.
Key responsibilities include:
**Strategic Impact Areas:**
- Platform Data Ecosystem: Shape how data flows across the product suite to establish a single source of truth for private market data
- Financial Systems Architecture: Design resilient, scalable solutions for management fee accounting and multi-currency transactions
- Engineering Excellence: Define company-wide standards that reduce operational load and improve developer velocity across dozens of teams
**Core Responsibilities:**
- Navigate ambiguity by tackling complex, poorly-defined problems and breaking them into navigable paths for the organization
- Champion systemic improvement by identifying failure patterns across systems and driving architectural changes for scalability and reliability
- Bridge technical gaps using deep cross-functional understanding to align multiple teams on major technical decisions
- Lead AI integration efforts by defining context and building guardrails for safe, effective AI tool adoption across engineering
- Uphold engineering standards by setting vision for operational excellence and mentoring senior engineers
**Required Qualifications:**
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated high-level technical leadership
- Expert in building distributed systems
- Proficiency with Python/Django, React, and PostgreSQL; comfort guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native AWS infrastructure
- Leadership through influence rather than authority; role model for constructive communication and technical discipline
- Visionary approach: anticipate future roadblocks and build systems supporting long-term business growth
The role offers competitive market salary, equity, and exceptional benefits.
