Senior Front Eng Engineer, Design Technology

The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to create more owners.

Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, Tribe, and Pipe build their businesses on Carta.

The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies , Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies . We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S. and a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category .

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

The Team You’ll Work With

As an Engineer in the Design Technology team, you will: Work both on improving and redesigning currently existing components, as well as conducting and participating in discussions around API ergonomics and interface design Support our primary users, engineers and designers from other departments, as they use the tools and building blocks we provide Improve the current existing components while keeping an eye out for breaking changes, and providing automated ways to upgrade if that’s the case Make sure existing and new features are covered by unit, visual, and integration tests Leverage AST parsers and other static analysis tools to gain insight into the design system’s usage and impact

The Impact You’ll Have

Building the central platform design team at Carta means creating leverage for Carta’s designers and business units. By investing in the foundations, standards, tools and practice of design we can move faster and build better products for our customers. The central design team already has some of our best and longest tenured design team members. As a part of that team, you’ll mentor and be mentored by your teammates as you learn about the unique challenges of perfecting a design system for finance. This team’s efforts should very literally impact millions of users and their associated wealth creation through equity. The business units and their independent design teams are focused on building products for their customers – your job is to create the standards, processes, and infrastructure that will enable the company to move faster. You will also apply these standards and processes in best practice examples with our product incubation teams. This is all in support of our mission to create more owners.

About You

Successful engineers in the Design Technology team are:

• Seasoned writers of documentation, proposals, and specifications. Each Ink component has to be explained in detail in a way that is accessible for designers and comprehensive for engineers;
• Seasoned front-end developers that understand how the Javascript ecosystem has developed over the past few years and that have worked with technologies like jQuery, KnockoutJS, EmberJS or others.
• Knowledgeable about accessibility, usability, WCAG and ARIA tools and features and their impact on people who rely on assistive technology; The Interview Process
• Developers of tools that automate and simplify their and others’ workflows, from command-line interfaces to design and prototyping tools;
• Experienced testers and are capable of both writing testable code and of writing unit, visual and integration tests;
• Collaborators with designers and are familiar with their tools and workflows;
• Experts in React, its ecosystem and history, and know the ins and outs of using advanced features like hooks, context, render props, etc;
• Experienced with Typescript and understand the value of strongly, correctly-typed code and the amount of time it saves to do so;

The Interview Process

First, one of our recruiters will call you to tell you more about the job and company. You'll then meet an Engineering Manager who will discuss your opportunities at Carta and explore your experience, skills, and goals. Next, we’ll send you a technical take-home exercise where you’ll implement a software solution to a small engineering problem. Finally, you'll have some conversations with Carta team members on a wide range of topics, including communications and collaboration, coding efficacy and techniques, and systems design.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, connect with us via email at [email protected] . As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

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