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Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Carta

Carta

Software Engineering, (Engineering)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Posted on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
<div class="content-intro"> <h2>The Company You’ll Join</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">The company has been included on the </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/?sh=2b8dd7e27d9c"><span style="font-weight:400;">Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2020"><span style="font-weight:400;">Fast Company's Most Innovative</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> list, and </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/inc5000/2020"><span style="font-weight:400;">Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">. We’ve also been recognized as a </span><a href="https://builtin.com/awards/us/2023/best-places-to-work"><span style="font-weight:400;">2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S.</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> and a </span><a href="https://www.themuse.com/advice/vibe-awards-2022-vacation-time-off-benefits"><span style="font-weight:400;">Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">For more information about our offices and culture, check out our </span><a href="https://carta.com/careers/"><span style="font-weight:400;">Carta careers page</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></p> </div><h2> <strong>More about Capdesk from Carta</strong> </h2> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;">At Capdesk from Carta, we’re rewriting how companies use equity to empower their people. We help businesses unite founders, investors and employees through better equity management and greater access to liquidity – no more waiting for the company to IPO.</span> </p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">In the last few years, we’ve become a leader in our field, providing the easiest way for 1000s of private companies to digitise their equity information and manage employee share schemes. There are no longer any excuses for denying employees a share of the wealth they helped to create.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br></span> </p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">It’s an exciting time to join us, as we’ve officially joined industry leaders Carta to create a global equity management solution.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Capdesk was founded with a vision of changing finance for good by leveraging the power of equity for the benefit of all, and we’ve identified a shared mission in Carta.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">🎉 You can read more here: </span><a href="http://blog.capdesk.com/capdesk-joins-carta"><span style="font-weight:400;">blog.capdesk.com/capdesk-joins-carta</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p> <h2><strong>About you</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">This is a fully remote role! We are currently able to accept applications from the following countries: UK, Denmark, and Canada however this is reviewed on a regular basis and we will update accordingly.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">We're looking for engineers with experience delivering value. You've put important features into production and </span><strong>want to keep shipping more</strong><span style="font-weight:400;">. Maybe you’d like to have more autonomy and have a bigger impact. Maybe you miss faster, simpler and easier times back when you could solely focus on creating amazing features.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Well, well, what a happy coincidence! This is where Capdesk from Carta is right now. We have so much to build and tons of interesting opportunities to chase. </span><strong>We want to grow, but at a controlled pace</strong><span style="font-weight:400;">. We're not on an uncontrolled hypergrowth journey and when it comes to hiring, we value quality over quantity.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">You'll be building new features, improving existing code and collaborating with a team of highly driven and motivated individuals. You're autonomous, able to wrap your head around complex problems and curious to dig into the world of fintech. You like to ship iteratively and to consistently improve the code, leaving it better than it was when you first read it.</span></p> <p><strong>You enjoy collaborating with designers and product managers</strong><span style="font-weight:400;">. You have a certain design sensibility that helps you communicate with such stakeholders and elaborate solutions together. You can break down a complex problem into a solution that provides a rich user experience and implement solutions in a scalable future-proof way.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Bonus points if you have an opinion on the various front-end frameworks that exist and </span><strong>would enjoy contributing to a design system</strong><span style="font-weight:400;">!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">As a senior joining our team you'll have a golden opportunity to shape how we work and build things at Capdesk from Carta. You’re being brought on board to lead the change, not to be a passenger. </span><strong>Your voice will be heard</strong><span style="font-weight:400;"> and you will be given ample opportunities to influence the things you're passionate about. We're a team of open-minded individuals that love hearing new ideas and learning from others’ experiences. Bring your views!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">📽 </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Watch Vincent explain what we're looking for in a four minute video: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/engineeringcapdeskfromcarta"><span style="font-weight:400;">https://bit.ly/engineeringcapdeskfromcarta</span></a></p> <p><strong>Our tech stack:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our frontend infrastructure is composed of three micro-frontend applications. We’re phasing out our legacy AngularJS stack in favor of our new React/TypeScript stack.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our designers create wireframes and prototypes in Figma.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Our design system is created using Storybook and can be viewed here: </span><a href="https://camo.capdesk.com/"><span style="font-weight:400;">https://camo.capdesk.com/</span></a> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our back-end runs on Ruby on Rails, using PostgreSQL and Redis.</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Our infrastructure runs on Heroku (we like to keep it simple).</span></li> <li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We use a few amazing, best of the market tools: Datadog, Sentry, LaunchDarkly.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Want to know more? Check out the home of all things Engineering to give you a real-time overview of key metrics in our product environment, which you can find here:</span><a href="https://engineering.capdesk.com/"><span style="font-weight:400;">https://engineering.capdesk.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> 🔥</span></p> <h2><strong>The Interview Process</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">👉 Our hiring process can be found here: </span><a href="https://bit.ly/engineeringhiringprocess"><span style="font-weight:400;">https://bit.ly/engineeringhiringprocess</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Don’t worry about being a 100% fit. If this sounds like an interesting opportunity to you and you think it could work, let’s chat.</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;">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 <a href="mailto:recruiting@carta.com">recruiting@carta.com</a>. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our <a href="https://carta.com/careers/">careers page</a> to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Interested in our candidate privacy policy? Find out more <a href="https://carta.com/privacy/candidate/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></p> </div>
Carta is an equal opportunity employer.
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