Senior Software Engineer I, Fund Admin, Financial Reporting

Carta

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$143K - $168K USD

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada First seen 3 weeks ago Last seen 5 hours, 44 minutes ago Greenhouse

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Job Description

AI Summary

• Build financial reporting and fund administration software serving 9,000+ funds representing $185B in assets, focusing on automating venture capital operations and replacing spreadsheet-based processes. • Requires strong software engineering expertise to design configurable distributed systems handling complex functions including money movement, accounting ledgers, profit waterfalls, reconciliations, and investment performance tracking. • Work on a mix of greenfield and metrics-driven projects as part of a specialized R&D team within Carta's rapidly growing Fund Administration group, the fastest-growing provider in the space since 2018. • Partner with internal stakeholders and financial reporting specialists to design scalable, reliable systems that deliver accurate, timely reporting for the private markets industry. • Join a company recognized as a Great Place to Work, trusted by 65,000+ companies across 160+ countries, with offices supporting a distributed team culture.

The Company You’ll Join

Carta connects founders, investors, and limited partners through world-class software, purpose-built for everyone in venture capital, private equity and private credit. Trusted by 65,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence.

Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 9,000+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Recognized by Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc. and Great Places to Work, Carta is shaping the future of private market infrastructure.

Together, Carta is creating the end-to-end ERP platform for private markets. Traditional ERP solutions don’t work for Private Funds. Private capital markets need a comprehensive software solution to replace outdated spreadsheets and fragmented service providers. Carta’s software for the Office of the Fund CFO does just that - it’s a new category of software to make private markets look more like public markets - a connected ERP for private capital.

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

The Team You'll Work With

You will join our R&D team of learners, builders, experts, and leaders in our Fund Administration group. Our group is building the next generation of software for the venture capital industry. We build software to help new funds launch, investors to track analytics and performance, for fund accountants operating the books and financial records for investment funds ranging from $100k through billions under management, and more. We work on a mix of greenfield opportunities and work informed by metrics.

Carta Fund Administration is redefining venture capital operations. Since 2018, our business has grown faster than any other provider in the space. We work with some of the largest venture capital firms in the world, building software to automate managing their investments. As we head deeper into 2025, our goal is to forge the future of how this industry operates and our hammer is engineering. We are building a distributed system that needs to be configurable enough for the most complex of customers. Its responsibilities are wide: money movement, an event-based general accounting ledger, calculating profit waterfalls, rule-based engines for reconciliations and allocations, workflow orchestrations, investment performance tracking, incorporation tooling… just to name a few.

The Financial Reporting Team is dedicated to building solutions that empower Carta’s internal reporting specialists and our clients with accurate, timely, and flexible reporting. Our work focuses on three key areas:

Partnering with internal stakeholders to plan, design, and iterate on financial reporting features that meet client needs.
Enabling our financial reporting team to deliver time-critical outputs by building scalable, reliable systems and continuously improving our technical foundation.
Innovating on AI-enabled reporting capabilities to provide clients with customizable, insight-driven reporting experiences.

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do, often working closely with teams across Fund Admin R&D to solve meaningful problems and deliver impactful results.

About You

We’re looking for candidates with years of professional software development experience, particularly with Python. You’re someone who:

Has strong technical skills and works well across teams — you’re a trusted partner to other engineering leaders and managers.
Thrives in ambiguity — you bring ideas to the table and help shape the path forward.
Designs and implements systems that are clear, maintainable, and correct, whether they’re greenfield or legacy.
Is excited to own work end-to-end: from the first line of code, through cohort releases, to a full production rollout.
Moves fast, but knows when to build for the long term.
May be passionate about parts of our stack — Python, Django, JavaScript/React, TypeScript, Postgres, gRPC, and Kafka. Experience in all is not required, but is helpful.

We also look for candidates who are interested in, experienced with, or curious about…

Accounting, Reporting and Investment Management
Finding opportunities to 10X user experiences via AI agents
Document data extraction
Tax reporting, financial reporting, and financial auditing
Banking and money movement

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 take home exercise (we do not do LeetCode-style interviews, no one will quiz you on writing a doubly-linked list) and virtual interviews. During the process, you can ask questions to people across different parts of the Fund Administration 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 expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

$142,800 - $168,000 CAD in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

We are hiring for multiple levels and locations, so final offers may vary from the amounts listed based on geography, experience and expertise, and other factors.

Disclosures:

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, please connect with the talent partner via email.
Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
For information on our data privacy policies, see Privacy, CA Candidate Privacy, and Brazil Transparency Report.
Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com or @carta-external.com domain. Report any contact from unapproved domains to security@carta.com.

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Company:
Carta
Location:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Experience Level:
Senior
Source:
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