Staff Software Engineer, Funds

Hard Yaka; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits and equity package

Hybrid working model

Job summary

A leading tech firm in San Francisco seeks a Staff Engineer to lead the architectural direction of new dashboard experiences for GP management. This role provides the opportunity to influence how capital flows within startups and employ AI to enhance operational efficiency. Ideal candidates should have strong coding skills, a history of autonomous decision-making, and a love for startups. Competitive salary starting at $240,000 annually with a hybrid work model, requiring at least 2 days in the office.

Qualifications

• Operated at staff level or equivalent with autonomy.
• Demonstrated impact beyond immediate team.
• Strong hands-on coding ability with regular production code writing.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture of the new GP dashboard.
• Drive technical direction across systems for coherent GP experience.
• Identify AI applications to eliminate operational friction.

Skills

Architectural decisions

Customer communication

Hands-on coding

AI infrastructure

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

Our north star: self‑serve fund management. The Funds team owns the workflows that GPs rely on daily: configuration, capital activity, reporting, documents, and the UI that makes it all feel intuitive.

This is a Staff Engineer opportunity to rebuild the GP experience from the ground up. You'll set the architectural direction for the new dashboard experiences, define how AI gets embedded into fund management workflows, and work directly with customers to win accounts 5‑6X our current average. Your decisions will shape how tens of billions of dollars flow in and out of startups, and create a new standard for the end user experience.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Define the architecture of the new GP dashboard as we rebuild it from the ground up – setting the foundational patterns the team reaches for as the experience scales to institutional funds.
• Own the product‑level decisions that determine what self‑serve looks like for institutional GPs, working closely with PMs and customers to shape what gets built, not just how.
• Identify where AI can eliminate operational friction in fund management workflows. Turn multi‑step processes that currently require an operator into something a GP can do in seconds.
• Drive technical direction across the boundaries between Funds and adjacent systems (LP onboarding, subscriptions, treasury) so that the GP experience is coherent end‑to‑end.
• Raise the ceiling of a small, high‑ownership team through design reviews, architectural patterns, and the kind of judgment that makes senior engineers around you better.

You most likely:

• Have operated at staff level or equivalent. You are highly autonomous, have had impact beyond your immediate team, and have a track record of architectural decisions that held up as systems scaled.
• Are as comfortable on a customer call as in a systems design review, able to understand what a GP actually needs and ship it without a lengthy handoff chain.
• Have demonstrated a multiplier effect on engineering teams. You’ve been the person who defined the patterns a team reached for—and the team was measurably better for it.
• Have a deep love of startups, having worked at one (or potentially started one). The domain is part of the job.
• Have strong hands‑on coding ability. You write production code regularly, review others’ work rigorously, and have no interest in becoming a purely advisory engineer.
• Are curious about AI as applied infrastructure—not hype, but genuine interest in where it can make financial workflows more accurate, more automated, and more trustworthy.

Working Here

If you don’t meet every requirement above, we still encourage you to apply. We value complementary strengths and operators who learn by doing.

AngelList has offices in a few cities, New York City and San Francisco. We have a hybrid in‑office model: teammates come in at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and either Wednesday or Thursday). Exceptions may be made for exceptional individual contributor candidates in other locations.

Compensation: The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $240,000+ annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Full details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.

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