Head of Engineering, Foundations

Wellfound; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

AngelList is seeking a Head of Engineering, Foundations to lead the team that owns critical infrastructure for moving and auditing money across the platform. This role reports directly to the CEO and carries company-wide scope.

You will ship high-impact systems, shape sandboxing, audit trails, and rollback mechanisms for both human and non-human users. The role rewards precision, urgency, and long‑term thinking as we scale private markets.

Job description

Why Join AngelList

We’re solving some of the hardest problems in venture capital and private markets. You’ll work with a team that values precision, urgency, and long-term thinking. If you want to shape how startups are funded and built, this is the place.

About AngelList

We exist to accelerate innovation by increasing the number of successful startups in the world. We do this by building the financial infrastructure that makes it easier for more people to invest in world-changing companies.

AngelList is the nexus of venture capital and the startup community. We support $171B+ in assets and have powered investments into over 13,000 startups—over 300 of which are unicorns. Today, 57% of top-tier U.S. VC deals involve investors on AngelList. While our scale is large, our ambition is larger.

If you're excited to build the future of private markets, come build with us.

About the Role:

$200B+ in assets and $90B in money movement run on infrastructure that about 50 engineers and a growing number of agents build on top of. We're hiring a Head of Engineering, Foundations to lead the team that owns it. This role reports directly to the CEO and has company-level scope.

Part of what this team owns is new. Agents are becoming first-class users of our own systems, and nobody has a settled answer for what a platform owes a non-human user: sandboxing, audit trails, rollback, all against systems that move real money. You'd be deciding how that works here.

As a Head of Engineering here, you'd be expected to personally ship, not just direct.