# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: London, England, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/carta/jobs/7652562003
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1b4d74f5-cf9

## Description

## The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a software company that connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit.

## The Team You'll Work With

You’ll enter our engineering interview process as part of a pooled hiring model. We’re excited to meet people who are energized by complex, ambiguous problems. We look for owners and problem-solvers who are eager to dive into the details of their craft, and are motivated by building products and experiences that meaningfully expand access to ownership.

## The Problems You'll Solve

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will lead technically complex projects and serve as a multiplier for your team. You’ll work to:

- Drive Implementation: Lead the execution of complex technical projects, driving them from concept to production while maintaining high standards for performance and reliability.

- Simplify Systems: Dig deep into our architecture to identify opportunities to simplify code and infrastructure, prioritizing changes that have a measurable business impact.

- Leverage Modern Tooling: Use the best AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate your workflow, improve code quality, and spend more of your time solving the high-level logic and unconventional problems

- Foster Growth: Act as a mentor and coach, raising the technical bar for your peers through diligent PR reviews and architectural guidance.

- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product and design to ensure we are building the right solution for the user, not just following a specification.

## About You

- The Tech Stack: You have experience with (or a desire to learn) our core technologies: Python, Django, React, Postgres, and Kafka. We also utilize Java, gRPC, and AWS.

- Execution: You can break down complex user stories into actionable tasks and execute them with minimal guidance.

- Strategic Mindset: You understand the 'why' behind your code and can articulate technical trade-offs to stakeholders.

- Experience: We recommend 8+ years of professional software engineering experience for this level.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Django
- React
- Postgres
- Kafka
- Java
- gRPC
- AWS