Senior Software Engineer II, Fund Accounting

The Problems You'll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow.

As Carta expands beyond Venture Capital and into Private Equity and building an ERP for Private Capital, here are some problems you will solve as a Senior Software Engineer II:

• Build systems that can intelligently traverse the graph to automate accounting workflows, generate journal entries, and support accurate financial reporting across all associated entities and investors.
• Solve for flexibility and configurability at scale — enabling a platform that adapts to diverse fund structures and asset classes having nested and multi-tier ownership hierarchies
• Develop a configurable and reusable allocation engine that supports industry-specific capital allocation strategies — such as preferred returns and carried interest — while remaining adaptable to a variety of client-specific needs and regulatory requirements.
• Play a key role in defining the technical strategy building systems for scale  and champion engineering excellence by implementing technical standards, reusability patterns, and mentoring across multiple teams. 

 

The Team You'll Work With

The Fund Accounting team is building the core financial infrastructure that powers how private equity firms, venture capital funds, and other alternative asset managers operate at scale. We are responsible for designing systems that accurately model fund structures, automate complex financial workflows, and deliver complete, auditable books and records across a wide range of investment strategies.

You’ll be joining a product and engineering team that combines deep technical expertise with strong domain intuition. Our engineers and product leaders work hand-in-hand with experienced Fund Accountants and Controllers – professionals who have spent their careers navigating the complexities of private equity, venture, and credit fund structures. Together, we are transforming manual, spreadsheet-driven accounting processes into intuitive, intelligent software that raises the bar for what fund finance teams expect.

We’re a team driven by precision, committed to auditability, and passionate about solving hard financial infrastructure problems that matter. If you love hard architectural problems, financial domain modeling, and working with a passionate, high-ownership team, we’d love to talk.

We believe in engineers as artisans and first-principle problem solvers, and we aim to create an environment in which engineers thrive. You deeply care about your users and their problems. You are relentless in your pursuit to build delightful user experiences that wow the customer. You are energized by solving deep problems collaboratively.

Additionally,

• You have 8+ years of full-stack or backend engineering experience
• You desire to become a product domain expert and refine ambiguous product requirements to deliver customer value
• You have experience working with complex SaaS products with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and microservices
• You are passionate about some elements of our tech stack (ReactJS, Java, Python, Datadog, REST / GRPC, Kafka, K8s, AWS)
• You are excited to work with stakeholders across engineering, product, business and marketing and own an initiative end-to-end
• You see communication as one of your strengths
• You are eager to move fast, but recognize when to build for the future
• You are empathetic and see psychological safety and diversity as core foundations of a thriving team

The Interview Process

Carta follows a standard tech startup interview process, where you will meet with a recruiter and hiring manager first. We’ll then ask you to show off your skills with a real-world live coding exercise and virtual interviews. 

We do not do LeetCode-style interviews, no one will quiz you on writing a doubly-linked list. Instead, we want to see how you would write a thoughtfully crafted PR as part of a team, this may include data modeling, error handling, and unit testing. During the process, you can ask questions to people across different parts of the team to learn what kind of work we do and how it lines up with your interests.

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 minimum cash compensation range for this role is: 

• $212,000 - $250,000 in [San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA] 

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