Senior Frontend Engineer
Carta
The Company You’ll Join
At Carta we create owners and make private markets liquid.
We live in a world where some people live on the equity stack and enjoy exponential wealth growth and preferential tax treatment; others live on the debt stack and may work their entire lives for a company and retire only with the cash they’ve managed to save from their paychecks. Our contribution to solving the wealth inequality problem is moving people from the debt stack (payroll) to the equity stack. By making it as easy to issue equity to employees as it is to put them on payroll, we can create more owners.
At Carta, we are helpful, transparent, fair, and kind. We are relentless executors, unconventional thinkers, and masters of our craft.
Learn more about our Series G fundraising round here.
The Team You’ll Work With
You will work with one of the most exciting startup businesses in the world: CartaX. Our mission is to remove restrictions on when and how employee's of pre-IPO companies have access to liquidity.The CartaX team is responsible for building a private stock market from the ground up that allows employees and early investors to trade their shares of pre-IPO companies. CartaX is the world’s first vertically integrated financial marketplace for private assets and we’ve just started. The CartaX team is composed of experts in building and operating marketplaces and brokerages, as well as a diverse set of team members with backgrounds in capital markets and SaaS platforms.
The Role
As a Frontend Engineer you will be in charge of writing new components and tools for use on our Carta web platform. You’ll work closely with Design, Product and other groups to come up with a best-in-class user experience, and then implement it in a modular, scalable manner. You’ll work closely across the Carta and CartaX businesses to drive innovation in our component library, as well as improve the overall architecture of our software ecosystem.
The problems you'll solve
Writing React to produce new components, views, and dataflows for our CartaX application. You'll work closely with Design to produce seamless user experiences, and to break down the complexity of modern finance for our wide audience of users. Help translate the goals of our product organization into concrete deliverables, and execute flawlessly. You'll work with our wider engineering team to scope out and introduce new practices and processes to make us all better.
Daily and monthly responsibilities
- Write React code and API integrations as you work closely with our software platform built on Kafka and gRPC.
- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve release experience.
- Write appropriate tests / introduce frameworks to ensure production stability.
- Perform root cause analysis for errors.
- Investigate and resolve technical issues.
- Help the design team come up with solutions that provide great user experiences without compromising on code quality.
- Review code submissions by other developers.
- Provide support when applicable for features you’ve worked on.
About You
You are an experienced developer, who gets excited about working with the latest Javascript frameworks and wants to constantly look to learn and improve on how we work. You’re unafraid to propose changes - and can communicate new ideas in the right way. You’ve worked extensively on large scale, customer facing applications, and understand how the entire software stack needs to work in order to produce the best experience possible.
Some of the skills we look for
- Good knowledge of Typescript and React, or a similar Javascript framework
- Experience working on a major, customer facing website with 1000s of users
- Excellent communicator, able to convey complex ideas to a wide audience
- Experience developing engineering applications for a large corporation
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
Most importantly you're excited to work on a product that will fundamentally change the way private companies view liquidity, going public and how employees exercise their options.