Senior Software Engineer, Accounting

AngelList; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

AngelList is hiring a senior back-end engineer in San Francisco to own features end-to-end, with potential frontend work in React/TypeScript. The role requires 5+ years of experience in back-end engineering, and familiarity with financial workflows and accounting systems.

You will contribute to building reliable, audit-ready outputs for a growing fund universe. The position offers a hybrid in-Office model with an emphasis on in-person collaboration at the SF hub.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a senior back-end engineer with end-to-end ownership.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks.
• Ability to work on frontend tasks using React/TypeScript when needed.

Responsibilities

• Model financial workflows—turning real fund data into automated financials.
• Build scalable accounting infrastructure for front-end reporting and GL read/write on the back-end.
• Solve data integrity problems ensuring audit-ready outputs across funds.
• Collaborate with accounting stakeholders to automate manual processes.
• Work with talented colleagues driven by the same mission.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

MVC frameworks

React

TypeScript

Backend development

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

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.

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 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

AngelList helps over 25,000 funds manage $171B+ in startup investments. Our software automates the work for our in‑house team of operators, financial accountants, and tax professionals. We are now charting the course to managing $1T in investments. AngelList aims to power the best‑performing venture funds. We can win these customers if we deliver financials more accurately and more quickly than anyone else. We need to issue and collect capital calls faster than anyone. We need to make our customers’ requests either self‑serve, or so operationally tight behind‑the‑scenes that it feels self‑serve. We will get there by delivering a new product experience, where the GP may self‑serve more of their requests; and by overhauling our accounting system to automate more operational work.

You Will Have The Opportunity To

• Model financial workflows—turning messy, real‑world fund data into accurate and automated financials.
• Build scalable accounting infrastructure—improving how financial data is reported on the front‑end, and building out how we read/write to the general ledger on the back‑end.
• Solve hard data integrity problems—ensuring our system produces reliable and audit‑ready outputs across a growing universe of funds.
• Collaborate directly with accounting stakeholders in a tight feedback loop, turning their manual processes into automated systems.
• Work with other highly talented and self‑motivated colleagues driven by the same mission.

You Are Most Likely

• A senior back‑end engineer (Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks) with 5+ years of experience, capable of owning features end to end and venturing into the frontend (React, TypeScript).
• Understand financial workflows or eager to dive deep into fund accounting, transaction processing, and general ledger systems. You are excited about the details of how money flows through the venture ecosystem.
• Thrive on complexity—modeling ambiguous problems, messy data, and evolving business requirements in a relational database (Postgres, MySQL) where every record is critical.
• Build for reliability—designing systems to produce audit‑ready financial outputs, not best‑effort calculations.
• Customer‑oriented to solve complex business problems in collaboration with users in finance and accounting.
• Execution‑focused, comfortable with balancing tradeoffs and making progress in a fast‑moving environment.
• Deep love of startups, having worked in at least one! You may have founded one yourself or hope to start a company in the future.

Working Here

We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing.

AngelList has offices in a few cities, with our engineering hub in San Francisco. We’re building our engineering and product teams around this hub to make the most of in‑person collaboration. We have a hybrid in‑office model: teammates come in at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday).

Compensation

The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role starts at $200,000+ annually but will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, level, and location. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.

Benefits

We support your life both in and outside of work.

What Guides Us

At AngelList, we are united in our purpose to accelerate innovation and build the future of private markets. Our beliefs and values shape what we work on and how we create impact. If the below resonate, we'd love to have you with us.

AngelList is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.