Software Engineer

ANGELLIST
San Francisco, CA, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$200,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Code Review Global Positioning Systems (GPS) PostgreSQL TypeScript Workflow Management Systems Backend Event Driven Architecture Graphql

Job description

Nova is building the banking and payments network for private markets. Fund managers, fund administrators, and investors use our software to manage subscriptions, capital calls, and distributions. Nova currently supports $1.2B+ in deposits, $100M+ in weekly transfers across six bank integrations, and ~150k verified investors. These transactions are among the highest-stakes moments in private markets. Customers move real money and expect every detail to be correct. Consistent accuracy is how Nova earns and keeps the trust of GPs and LPs., * Design, build, and ship complex workflows for distributions and capital calls, subscriptions, data rooms, and the LP wallet and portal. You’ll own meaningful parts of this work end to end.

  • Take difficult problems from design through release and operation. You’ll handle the edge cases and the long tail, not just the initial launch.
  • Build for correctness, resilience, and strong UX where real money and investor trust are at stake. Help catch predictable failures before they reach customers.
  • Model complex business domains and build maintainable systems and abstractions that your teammates can extend.
  • Improve the team’s work through thoughtful code reviews and design feedback, and mentor other engineers.
  • Work with Product/Design and the Foundations teams to integrate product features cleanly with their money-movement and identity systems., * The workflows you own across distributions, subscriptions, and capital calls are consistently error-free and increasingly self-service. For example, your work contributes to 95%+ of distributions completing end to end without manual intervention.
  • You ship meaningful parts of Nova’s greenfield payments, wallet, and identity surfaces on a clear, coherent architecture that the team can extend.
  • Your parts of the product integrate cleanly with Foundations’ systems and remain maintainable as they scale.
  • Your reviews, designs, and mentorship help other engineers make better technical decisions and move faster.

Requirements

  • 3+ years building backend or full-stack web applications, including meaningful experience with complex, quality-critical products where correctness matters to users.
  • Senior-level impact. You’ve owned significant features or systems from an ambiguous problem through launch and operation, and your team relies on you to get difficult work right in your area.
  • A record of shipping sophisticated product surfaces and improving their reliability and quality.
  • Strong architecture and data-modeling skills. You can model complex, evolving business domains and keep systems maintainable as they grow.
  • Fluency in a modern TypeScript stack, or clear evidence that you’ll ramp quickly. You’re comfortable with a GraphQL API, PostgreSQL, and workflow orchestration with Temporal.
  • Comfort working in a startup environment. You can handle ambiguity and maintain quality while keeping pace with a lean team that ships quickly. Nice to Have

  • Experience in fintech, payments, or another high-stakes domain where correctness and trust are non-negotiable.
  • A record of taking greenfield product areas from zero to one and scaling mature ones.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and workflow orchestration, such as Temporal or a similar system.
  • Experience working with platform or infrastructure teams whose systems your product depends on.

Benefits & conditions

The compensation for this role consists of a competitive base salary, benefits, and equity package. The base salary for this role is $200,000+ annually but actual will vary based on a number of factors including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process., We support your life both in and outside of work.

About the company

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., 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).

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