About Us
CARTO is a software company focused on helping organisations use location data as part of everyday decision making. Its platform makes it easier to store, analyse and visualise geospatial information, so teams can answer practical questions such as where demand is changing, how long deliveries really take, which sites are underperforming, or how risk varies by area. In many businesses, location data sits in separate tools or specialist GIS workflows, which can make it hard for wider teams to access. CARTO’s product is aimed at bringing spatial analysis into modern data stacks so that analysts and business users can work with maps and location based insights alongside the rest of their data.
The company serves organisations that rely on geography to run operations or plan strategy. That typically includes sectors like retail and consumer goods, logistics and mobility, telecoms, financial services and insurance, real estate, and the public sector. Users are often data teams, analysts and data scientists who want to run spatial queries, build models, and share results in a way that is understandable to non specialists. CARTO also appears relevant to product and operations teams who need location intelligence embedded into dashboards and planning tools, rather than treated as a separate discipline.
Within the SaaS ecosystem, CARTO sits at the intersection of geospatial technology and cloud data platforms. It is not just a mapping tool, it is closer to a data and analytics product that integrates with common cloud infrastructure and BI workflows. For job seekers, that usually means the work involves real world datasets, performance and reliability considerations, and a strong emphasis on making complex analysis accessible to a broader set of users.
People who tend to thrive at CARTO are those who enjoy building and supporting data products with a clear technical core. Engineering roles are likely to value experience with cloud services, APIs, data pipelines, and scalable analytics. Data oriented roles may suit candidates comfortable with SQL, spatial concepts, and turning messy datasets into usable insights. Product, design, solutions and customer facing roles are likely to benefit from an ability to translate between technical users and business outcomes, since geospatial work often needs careful explanation and thoughtful UX to feel approachable.
What may appeal about working at CARTO is the chance to work on a specialist category of SaaS with visible, real world impact. Location touches everything from how cities function to how companies serve customers, so the problems can be varied and grounded in practical outcomes. If you like working in an environment where technical depth matters, where customers are often sophisticated data teams, and where the goal is to make powerful capabilities usable across an organisation, CARTO is likely to be a good fit.