Senior Software Engineer
About Carrot:
Carrot is a global, comprehensive fertility and family care platform, supporting members and their families through many of life's most memorable moments. Trusted by many of the world’s leading multinational employers, health plans, and health systems, Carrot’s proven clinical program delivers exceptional outcomes and experiences for members and industry-leading cost-savings for employers. Its award-winning products serve all populations, from preconception care through pregnancy, IVF, male factor infertility, adoption, gestational carrier care, and menopause. Carrot offers localized support in over 170 countries and 25 languages. With a comprehensive program that prioritizes clinical excellence and human-centered care, Carrot supports members and their families through many of the most meaningful moments of their lives. Learn more at .
The Opportunity 🚀
We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in high-autonomy environments and wants to own meaningful product and platform outcomes from end to end. This is a role for engineers who enjoy operating with urgency, navigating ambiguity, and delivering production-ready solutions without waiting for perfect conditions.
You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering peers to solve complex problems that directly impact Carrot members, customers, and business performance. You’ll also help shape how our organization leverages AI-assisted development to increase speed, quality, and leverage across the engineering function.
What You’ll Own 💼
- 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 business and users.
- 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 tractable.
- 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:
AI has changed what a small team can ship.
Have a bias for action.
Own your outcomes.
What used to take a team of engineers a quarter can now be done by a smaller group of engineers in a week or two, if those engineers know how to wield the tools and make decisions based on product context. We are organized around that reality not as an experiment, but as the operating mode.
Concretely, that means:
- Small pods, clear DRIs. We operate in small, focused pods. On any given initiative, one PM or engineer is the directly responsible individual. This person owns the outcome, drives the decisions, and