Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own high-stakes work as the DRI. Take hard or ill-defined problems in your domain, like a product 1-pager, a member pain point, a partner integration, and own them end-to-end.
• Design, build, ship, monitor, fix, iterate.
• Design for flexibility. Carrot aims to be flexible to the needs of the market, our customers, and our members. Our engineering practices should reflect this. When you are breaking down a body of work or sequencing changes, you should aim to deliver value incrementally, so that each small change unlocks value for the…
• Make the technical calls. Make speed-vs-durability tradeoffs and live with the consequences. On contested calls, you drive to a decision rather than waiting for one.
• Operate what you build. You're on the hook for reliability, observability, and incident response in your domain.
• Use AI as leverage. You have strong, specific opinions about AI tools and how they best accelerate work. You know when to trust the model and how to push back when you’re unsure. You raise the bar for how the rest of the org uses these tools.
• Be a rising tide. You mentor directly through your work: pairing, reviews, helping less-experienced engineers become DRIs on their own work. You also raise the level of everyone around you indirectly: through the bar you set for yourself, the standards you hold in collaboration, and the way you make hard problems look…
• Drive measurable outcomes. Every initiative ties back to a member metric, a cost line, a reliability target, or a revenue lever. You can articulate why what you're building matters and what success looks like before you start, and you push back when an initiative can't answer that question.
• How Engineering works at Carrot
• Carrot's engineering org is oriented around a few simple ideas

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