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# Senior Software Engineer, Nova Product at AngelList

- **Company:** AngelList
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/angellist/68928f0e-cb1b-4a94-9a9f-e880e6a755e2

## 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: 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. If you're a Senior Software Engineer who wants direct product impact, Nova Product gives you the opportunity to own high-stakes customer workflows end to end. The team builds domain-specific workflows on top of our money-movement and identity systems, including distributions, capital calls, digital subscriptions, data rooms, and the emerging LP wallet and investor portal. You'll take difficult workflows from an ambiguous problem through launch and operation. The team will rely on you to get the details right because one incorrect number or failed payment can erode customer trust.

## What You'll Do

- 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.

## What We're Looking For

- 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.

How Success Will Be Measured

- 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.

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, 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 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. Benefits:We support your life both in and outside of work. Explore our benefits Learn about Funders & Founders 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. Our beliefs

## Our values & leadership expectations

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.

## About AngelList

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AngelList builds the financial system for private markets, providing the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; $124.1M total funding across 8 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (additional office in San Diego; workforce distributed across 31 countries)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Private market investment infrastructure / fintech (venture capital administration, fund management, startup investing)
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C — fund managers, venture investors, syndicate leads, startups, and accredited/retail investors seeking access to private markets
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "The financial system for private markets." The company's stated goal is to solve the "ownership gap" for private companies — building the equivalent of public-market infrastructure (exchanges, custodians, transfer agents, brokers, retail distribution) for private markets, which now represent more than $28T in U.S. fund AUM.

## Products & Services
- **AngelList Funds**: The administration layer for venture capital — enables fund managers to launch and operate venture funds, SPVs, and syndicates on the platform.
- **USVC**: The brand behind retail access to venture investing, allowing non-institutional investors to participate in private-market deals.
- **Meridian**: The wealth layer for private markets; a platform for managing private-market assets and portfolio operations.
- **Nova** (coming soon): The banking and payments layer for private markets, announced as the next major product release.
- **Scout Funds & SPVs**: Additional investment vehicles supported on the platform alongside venture funds.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $124.1M (8 prior rounds). Platform scale figures are conflicting across sources: LinkedIn reports **$171B in assets on platform, 25K+ funds and syndicates, and 72K active investors**, while Built In reports **$15B in assets for fund managers, 17K+ startup investments (including 287 unicorns), and 1.3K startups using founder services** — both cited below as conflicting reports.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available in the provided data sources.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Nova (banking/payments layer) in July 2023; acquired Prospectify (2019) and Product Hunt (2016, for $20M); has delivered $10B in capital to startups with a stated ambition to reach $10T; active hiring across Engineering, Data, Finance, Marketing, Legal, and Customer Success teams.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects / de facto standard**: Positions itself as the default platform for startup investing, with 25K+ funds and syndicates and 72K active investors on platform (per LinkedIn data).
- **Full-stack private-market infrastructure**: Unlike point solutions, AngelList spans fund administration (Funds), retail access (USVC), wealth management (Meridian), and soon banking/payments (Nova) — a vertically integrated stack for private markets.
- **Data moat**: Years of transaction, fund, and investor data create switching costs for fund managers and investors alike.
- **Founder-friendly brand equity**: Long-standing reputation in the startup ecosystem, including backing 287 unicorns (per Built In).

## Strategic Focus
- **Launching Nova**: The banking and payments layer for private markets is positioned as the next major growth vector, completing the company's "financial system for private markets" vision.
- **Scaling Meridian**: Building out the wealth layer to serve private-market asset management at scale.
- **Expanding retail access**: Growing USVC to bring venture investing to a broader audience beyond accredited investors.
- **Growing platform AUM**: Pushing from $10B in capital delivered toward the stated $10T ambition.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company emphasizes high agency and ownership — described as "no ladders, only roads," where employees are expected to pave their own career paths and take on more than peers in the industry, faster, with less.
- **Work mode**: Hybrid roles available in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY (e.g., Senior Platform Engineer, Investor Services Specialist, Investment Operations Associate).
- **Funder & founders program**: Employees can invest up to $100K from an AngelList fund into deals they source and earn 20% of the profits from those investments.
- **Financial wellbeing**: Competitive salary, 401K, equity, FSA, and access to a finance coach.
- **Healthcare**: Premium medical, dental, vision coverage, One Medical, wellness coach, FSA, Carrot fertility benefits, and generous parental leave.
- **Lifestyle perks**: Unlimited PTO, unlimited book stipend, wellness reimbursement, and a remote office budget (co-working/home office).
- **Office perks**: In-office meals, coffee walks, team offsites, commuter benefits, and safe rides home.
- **Team size (conflicting reports)**: The careers page cites a team of 140; LinkedIn reports 321 employees (-0.7% YoY); Built In reports 518 total employees across 3 offices.

## Sources
1. [angellist.com — Careers](https://www.angellist.com/careers)
2. [angellist.com — About](https://www.angellist.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com — AngelList company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/angellist)
4. [jobs.lever.co — AngelList](https://jobs.lever.co/angellist)
5. [builtin.com — AngelList](https://builtin.com/company/angellist)

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