Sr. Software Engineer

About Karat

We're building the one-stop shop for creator finances.

Your favorite digital creators—the ones you follow every day on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch—aren’t just extraordinarily talented personalities and community builders. They’re also businesses. That means they have business needs—managing revenues, expenses, savings, credit, and banking. We’re building products that help creators spend less time worrying about finances so they can focus on creating.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team and help shape the future of our engineering systems and product. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact from day one — you’ll roll up your sleeves to design systems, write code, and ship features that set the standard for technical excellence, collaboration, and product thinking.

This is a hands-on role: you’ll design systems, write code, ship features, and influence technical and product direction. You’ll partner closely with product, design, and operations to bring ambitious ideas to life — from first sketch to launch. We’re looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly, and gets energy from seeing their work make a direct impact on customers and the business.

This position is based in Los Angeles, CA.

The compensation for this role is between $140k to $160k. 

What you’ll do:

• Take full ownership of projects from idea to production — scoping, designing, building, and shipping.
• Lay the foundation for our technical stack: establish patterns, libraries, and practices that will scale as we grow.
• Work directly with leadership to shape product and technical strategy.
• Partner with product and design to define and deliver user-focused features with real impact.
• Build for today while keeping an eye on tomorrow — balancing scrappy speed with long-term scalability.
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture rooted in collaboration, velocity, and high standards.
• Drive alignment across engineering and product on priorities, tradeoffs, and execution.
• Collaborate with teammates to foster a culture of accountability, learning, and velocity.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven ability to ship high-quality products end-to-end — from system design to launch.
• Strong product sense: you care deeply about user experience and business outcomes, not just code quality.
• Track record of cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and operations teams.
• Experience in system design, architecture, and scaling modern web applications.
• Strong communication skills — able to distill technical tradeoffs into clear recommendations.
• Fintech or payments experience is a plus, but not required.
• Early-stage startup experience is a plus, but not required.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a “get shit done” mentality in fast-changing environments.

Why Karat?

• Huge opportunity. The creator economy just flew past a $50b milestone despite zero infra for creator banking. It’s our race to lose.
• Fascinating problems. We want to empower creators to focus on what they love and what matters most—being creative and growing their creator business. We are trying to figure out how to make the headaches and challenges of financial services easy.
• The right team. We’ve got a diverse team with talent from top companies (e.g., Goldman Sachs, McKinsey), previous startup founders, and folks who create content and understand the space! We work hard together and have fun at dinners, on hikes, and even over zoom (despite the oxymoron).
• Culture. We love hanging out with board games, delicious dinners, and brisk hikes as much as we enjoy delving into personal philosophy, management theory, and nitty gritty business details. Don't be afraid to bring yourself to work!
• Resources and growth. We’re well capitalized from top investors like Signal Fire and Union Square Ventures; CEOs from YouTube, Twitter, Wealthfront, and CAA; and investors including Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Y Combinator, CRV, and Coatue. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot, build foundational products, and grow as our company scales.

Feel like you are the right fit? Please upload your resume and answer a few quick questions here: https://trykarat.typeform.com/to/wBcEI6LP 

Resources:

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