Senior Backend Engineer, Financial Infrastructure

AngelList, LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

AngelList is building the future of private markets from its San Francisco base. We seek a senior backend engineer with experience in Ruby on Rails, React, and PostgreSQL to lead features end-to-end and improve fund accounting systems.

You will model financial workflows, enhance accounting infrastructure, and tackle data integrity across a growing portfolio of funds, collaborating with accounting stakeholders to automate processes and deliver audit-ready outputs.

Qualifications

• Senior backend engineer with 5+ years of experience, owning features end to end.
• Strong knowledge of backend frameworks and frontend basics (React/TypeScript).
• Familiarity with financial workflows, fund accounting, and general ledger concepts.
• Comfortable modeling complex data in relational databases and ensuring audit-ready outputs.

Responsibilities

• Model financial workflows by turning real-world fund data into automated financials.
• Build scalable accounting infrastructure—front-end reporting and back-end ledger I/O.
• Solve hard data integrity problems across a growing fund universe.
• Collaborate with accounting stakeholders to automate manual processes.
• Work with highly talented colleagues driven by the mission.

Skills

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Financial workflows

Tools

Ruby on Rails

MVC frameworks

Job description

AngelList is building the future of private markets from its San Francisco base. We seek a senior backend engineer with experience in Ruby on Rails, React, and PostgreSQL to lead features end-to-end and improve fund accounting systems.

You will model financial workflows, enhance accounting infrastructure, and tackle data integrity across a growing portfolio of funds, collaborating with accounting stakeholders to automate processes and deliver audit-ready outputs.