Senior Software Engineer, CartaX

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’re just getting 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.

You will join our client services team which consist of full-stack engineers as well as other cross-functional team members to shape all user facing interactions of CartaX.

The Problems You’ll Solve

The client services team works closely with the product team to develop and build the customer facing workflows that drive interaction with our transaction platform. They build highly responsive, data-intensive interfaces that interact with a large variety of internal API’s. The team works with products directly to help shape and form requirements for complex, large scale initiatives.

Some of the problems you’ll help us solve are: 

• Craft end to end experiences from ui components to backend services, database modeling and inter-service communication
• Define best practices and use those principles to build reliable and secure financial applications
• Design, scale, and implement internal and external apis
• Build and maintain reliable services that interact with frontend and backend services

The Impact You’ll Have

You'll have the opportunity to work on a product that will fundamentally change the way private companies view liquidity, going public and how employees exercise their options.

Technical impact

• Writing Python code to update services and dataflows for our CartaX application.
• Working closely with Product to produce seamless experiences, and 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.
• Work with our wider engineering team to scope out and introduce new practices and processes to make us all better.
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Write Python or Typescript 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 have senior level experience solving complex technical challenges with backend languages mostly with Python and Typescript. You have knowledge and practical experience with multiple types of databases and their accompanying use cases (Relational, Time series, Warehouse, etc.. ). You have experience working with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy your systems. You have experience with Message passing architecture- Kafka, ZeroMQ, GRPC. Proven experience with Kubernetes and Terraform