Core Software Engineer
Everything happens somewhere - which is why spatial analytics is fundamental to companies trying to understand the “where” and the “why” of their business. CARTO is the world's leading cloud-native spatial analysis platform, built to break down the silos of traditional GIS. Trusted by data scientists, analysts, and developers from global brands such as IKEA, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, Swiss Re, and AXA, CARTO enables organizations to run scalable spatial analysis directly on their cloud data warehouse. Providing insights for critical use cases like site selection, catastrophe modeling, network planning, and supply chain optimization.
Built by a diverse team of over 150 people across the US, APAC, and Europe, CARTO's cloud-native Agentic GIS platform provides a modern, future-proof alternative to legacy GIS. Offering a powerful suite of tools for visualization, analytics, and application development, our platform is redefining how companies work with location data. CARTO (backed by Insight Partners, Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Earlybird Ventures, among others) is fundamentally changing the way location data is analyzed, making it an integrated and accessible part of modern business intelligence.
What are we looking for
We're looking for a Core Software Engineer to join the team responsible for the foundations every CARTO engineer builds on top of.
The Core Team works horizontally across the entire engineering organization, we don't own a single product area, we own the systems, practices, and tooling that make all product areas move faster and more confidently. That means CI/CD, automation, performance, observability, and increasingly, the AI agents that run autonomously across our software delivery lifecycle.
This is a role for someone who is comfortable jumping between layers and domains, has a bias for automation, and gets genuine satisfaction from making other engineers' lives easier and more productive. You'll touch many different technologies and codebases, and your impact will be felt across the whole organization.
Location
This is a remote-first role, open to candidates based anywhere in Spain. We have offices in Madrid and Seville if you prefer to work in person or want a place to collaborate occasionally, but there's no expectation to use them.
You will
- Keep the delivery pipeline healthy — own and evolve the CI/CD infrastructure that the whole engineering org depends on. Fast, reliable, and trusted deployments are a baseline expectation.
- Drive automation across the organization — identify manual, repetitive processes wherever they exist and systematically eliminate them. If a machine can do it, it should.
- Own the testing strategy — define and enforce standards across teams for how software is tested: what layers, what coverage, how to keep pipelines green and fast.
- Lead on performance — detect, investigate, and resolve performance bottlenecks across systems and services. Build tooling that surfaces regressions automatically, before they reach production.
- Move AI to the next level — go beyond individual productivity tools and make AI a structural part of how CARTO builds software. That means autonomous agents running in the background catching bugs, security vulnerabilities, and coverage gaps; AI embedded in the delivery pipeline as a permanent, active participant; and you defining what gets automated next and how it scales across the organization.
You offer
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience working across different systems and domains. You're comfortable being horizontal, not siloed.
- Solid experience with CI/CD systems and a track record of improving delivery pipelines.
- A clear approach to automated testing and software quality at scale.
- Experience with GCP or AWS at an infrastructure level.
- Experience working with AI tools in a software delivery context: test generation, automated code review, agent-based workflows, or similar.
- Comfort in cloud-native environments: Docker, Kubernetes, IaC, and observability tooling.
- A collaborative, low-ego approach. You work across teams, give direct feedback, and make the people around you better.
- Experience with TypeScript and Node.js in a production backend context.
- Experience with background agents or event-driven AI automation pipelines.
- Contributions to open-source projects or internal platform initiatives.
We offer
- Compensation based on experience, discussed transparently during the process plus an annual bonus of up to 10% based on company objectives
- Contribute to a platform used by top companies around the world. Your work will have a direct impact on our users and clients
- Access to our Employee Stock Options Plan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Flexible compensation
- Education stipend
- Remote work stipend
- English classes