Senior Software Engineer II

Carta Carta · Fintech · London, United Kingdom · Engineering

Senior Software Engineer II at Carta, a company described as an AI-native ecosystem for private capital. The role focuses on leading complex technical projects, simplifying systems, leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools, mentoring peers, and collaborating cross-functionally. Experience with Python, Django, React, Postgres, Kafka, Java, gRPC, and AWS is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the execution of complex technical projects, driving them from concept to production while maintaining high standards for performance and reliability.
  2. Dig deep into our architecture to identify opportunities to simplify code and infrastructure, prioritizing changes that have a measurable business impact.
  3. 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
  4. Act as a mentor and coach, raising the technical bar for your peers through diligent PR reviews and architectural guidance.
  5. Partner with product and design to ensure we are building the _right_ solution for the user, not just following a specification.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Django
  • React
  • Postgres
  • Kafka
  • Java
  • gRPC
  • AWS
  • Software Engineering experience (8+ years)

Nice to have

  • Desire to learn core technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-assisted engineering tools