Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

The Company Youll Join

Carta connects founders investors and limited partners through world-class software purpose-built for everyone in venture capital private equity and private credit. Trusted by 65000 companies in 160 countries Cartas platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build invest and scale with confidence.

Cartas Fund Administration platform supports 9000 funds and SPVs representing nearly $185B in assets under management with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Recognized by Fortune Forbes Fast Company Inc. and Great Places to Work Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure.

Together Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Traditional ERP solutions dont work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Cartas software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - its a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital.

For more information about our offices and culture check out our Carta careers page.

The Team Youll Work With

Youll join our Developer Experience (DevEx) team a lean Special Ops unit within Cartas Infrastructure organization. Our North Star: remove friction from every step of the software delivery lifecycle so Cartas engineers can do the best work of their careers.

We own CI/CD infrastructure GitHub governance across 500 repos the rollout of AI coding tools across our company and the internal tooling layer that lets Carta move fast without breaking things. We are systems thinkers who measure everything because you cant optimize what you dont understand.

Carta is making a company-wide bet on AI-native development and DevEx is the team defining how that happens. Six months from now the playbook will be written. Now is when you get to write it.

The Problems Youll Solve

As a Senior Software Engineer II on DevEx you will:

• Build the MCP servers agents and plugin infrastructure that Cartas AI native development runs on and define the patterns other engineers follow
• Design and ship agents purpose-built to solve specific developer problems across the software delivery lifecycle
• Architect and drive CI/CD pipelines that automate build test and deployment to accelerate delivery across R&D
• Build the infrastructure AI tooling runs on so other engineers can build on top of it with confidence
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews and architectural guidance

About You

• Experience: 8 years in platform backend or fullstack engineering
• AI Builder: Youve shipped production LLM systems whether thats MCP servers or clients AI extensions connectors or agents designed to solve real problems not just demos
• Platform Mindset: You build things other engineers build on top of and think about APIs and developer ergonomics as seriously as performance
• Tech Stack: Python or Java; CI/CD tooling (CircleCI GitHub Actions ArgoCD Jenkins Docker); cloud-native (AWS Terraform Kubernetes); familiarity with secrets management tooling (Vault Cloudsmith) is a plus
• Security Aware: You think about least-privilege token lifecycle and supply chain risks when designing developer tooling not just after an incident
• Execution: You break down ambiguous problems and deliver with minimal guidance bringing data to debates and owning outcomes end-to-end

Salary

Cartas compensation package includes a market competitive salary equity for all full time roles exceptional benefits and for applicable roles commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary commission if applicable) range for this role is:

• $212500 - $250000 in Santa Clara CA; San Francisco CA; New York NY

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography candidate experience and expertise and other factors.

Disclosures:

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