# Staff Software Engineer

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $205,600 - $257,000 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/carta/jobs/7656155003
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_de654376-b17

## 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.

Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.

## The Team You’ll Work With

You’ll enter our engineering interview process as part of a pooled hiring model. We believe in hiring for Carta first, focusing on your core strengths and technical craft rather than a specific team’s immediate gap.

Staff Engineers at Carta are technical anchors for our business. You don’t just own features, you take long-term accountability for the technical health and strategic direction of different domains.

## The Problems You’ll Solve

As a Staff Engineer, you are responsible for the long-term technical health and success of your business unit. You’ll work to:

- Navigate Ambiguity: Tackle the most complex and poorly defined problems at Carta, breaking them down into navigable paths for the rest of the organization.

- Champion Systemic Improvement: Identify and eliminate failure patterns across multiple systems, driving architectural changes that improve scalability and reliability.

- Bridge Technical Gaps: Use your deep understanding of cross-functional domains to align multiple teams on major technical decisions.

- Define the AI Frontier: Lead the charge in transforming how we build by defining the context and building the rails that allow every person at Carta to leverage AI tools safely and effectively.

- Uphold Engineering Standards: Set the vision for operational excellence and mentor senior engineers to raise the collective craft of the organization.

## About You

- The Tech Stack: You are an expert in building distributed systems. While our primary stack is Python/Django, React, and Postgres, you should be comfortable guiding technical direction across JVM languages, gRPC, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS).

- Leadership: You lead through influence rather than authority, acting as a role model for constructive communication and technical discipline.

- Vision: You don't just solve the problem in front of you; you anticipate future roadblocks and build systems that support long-term business growth.

- Experience: We recommend 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of high-level technical leadership.

## Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is: $205,600 - $257,000 CAD in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Django
- React
- Postgres
- JVM languages
- gRPC
- cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)