Senior Software Engineer, Accounting
AI summary of the role
Senior back-end engineer to overhaul AngelList's accounting system, automating fund financial workflows and general ledger operations to support scaling from $171B to $1T in assets.
What you’ll do
- Model financial workflows, turning messy real-world fund data into accurate and automated financials.
- Build scalable accounting infrastructure, improving front-end financial reporting and back-end general ledger read/write.
- Solve hard data integrity problems to ensure reliable, audit-ready outputs across a growing universe of funds.
- Collaborate directly with accounting stakeholders to turn manual processes into automated systems.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of experience as a senior back-end engineer (Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks).
- Capable of owning features end to end and venturing into frontend (React, TypeScript).
- Understanding of financial workflows or eagerness to dive deep into fund accounting, transaction processing, and general ledger systems.
- Experience modeling ambiguous problems and messy data in relational databases (Postgres, MySQL).
Technologies
Ruby on Rails · MVC · React · TypeScript · Postgres · MySQL · general ledger · fund accounting
About Angel List
Infrastructure platform that lets investors and fund managers launch and run SPVs, syndicates, rolling funds and venture funds, and helps founders manage equity.
Private Late · 100–200 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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
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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: 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 cust [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] r 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 hop
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