Senior Software Engineer, Accounting

The role

You will build and automate the accounting software that AngelList uses for its finance and tax team. The work covers fund financial workflows, accounting infrastructure, and data integrity for audit-ready outputs.

What you will do

• Model financial workflows and turn messy fund data into accurate, automated financials
• Build scalable accounting infrastructure, covering front-end financial reporting and back-end general ledger reads and writes
• Solve data integrity problems so the system produces reliable, audit-ready outputs
• Work directly with accounting stakeholders to turn manual processes into automated systems
• Own features end to end, including frontend work

Required qualifications

• Senior back-end engineer experience with Ruby on Rails or similar MVC frameworks
• 5+ years of experience
• Ability to venture into the frontend (React, TypeScript)
• Understanding of financial workflows, or eagerness to learn fund accounting, transaction processing and general ledger systems
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
• Ability to model ambiguous problems and messy data
• Focus on reliability and audit-ready financial outputs
• Customer orientation for complex business problems with finance and accounting users
• Execution focus and comfort with tradeoffs in a fast-moving environment
• Experience working at a startup

Nice to have

• Experience founding a startup, or plans to start a company

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, benefits and equity package
• Benefits supporting life in and outside of work
• Funders & Founders program

Before you apply

• Posting says candidates who do not meet every requirement are still encouraged to apply

About the company

AngelList is building the financial system for private markets, with over $200B in assets and 30,000+ startups funded on its platform. It has about 200 employees.