Founding Engineer, Meridian

Private markets are the new public markets. The most important companies of this era are private, and almost no one can own them. What's missing is the financial system public markets spent a century building: exchanges, custodians, brokers, and ways for ordinary people to buy in. Private markets, now $28T, never had the equivalent. AngelList is building it.

The last decade of structural innovation in venture happened here: syndicates, SPVs at scale, Rolling Funds, scout programs. Today we have $200B+ in assets and 30,000+ startups funded on our platform. The rest of private markets is next. Funds is the software and services behind private funds, Nova is the banking network, Meridian is the wealth platform for accredited investors, and USVC is the brand behind a registered fund that lets anyone invest in venture.

Working here means an unusual amount of agency on a problem that matters. Titles are closer to suggestions, and there are about 200 of us building what private markets never had. Come build it with us.

Meridian is AngelList’s wealth platform for private markets. Meridian is building wealth products for the growing class of self-directed investors who want unique and direct access to private markets.

Built on more than a decade of AngelList innovation, Meridian extends the platform that already supports founders and fund managers to serve investors now. Meridian is early, and this role presents an opportunity to help shape the next generation of products for private market investing.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Meridian, you’ll own the technical design and delivery of major product surfaces across investing and portfolio management, from early architecture and sequencing tradeoffs through launch and iteration. This is a founding engineer role on a zero-to-one product with meaningful distribution, regulatory complexity, and infrastructure leverage. You’ll work closely with product, design, compliance, and supply to shape what private market investing feels like for the next decade.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Build a category-defining wealth platform for private markets
• Work on a 0 to 1 product with real distribution and infrastructure advantages from AngelList
• Drive high-leverage engineering decisions early, shaping the architecture and quality bar on which Meridian will scale
• Ship features that meaningfully increase investor engagement and investment volume
• Collaborate as part of a small founding team, partnering closely with product, design, supply, legal, and compliance
• Develop deep fluency in private market investing workflows and the constraints of building regulated, high-trust financial products

You most likely have:

• 6+ years of experience building meaningful web applications
• Experience owning large product surfaces from scratch in a 0-1 environment
• Full-stack generalist or frontend specialist with working proficiency across the stack to unblock yourself
• Strong technical judgment—you understand tradeoffs and aren’t afraid to voice your opinions and make fast decisions
• Experience building foundational systems, making architecture and sequencing decisions with long-term impact, and building software for two-sided marketplaces or in a regulatory domain
• High ownership mindset, bias toward action, and comfort pushing back and debating technical decisions with a cross-functional team
• Deep curiosity about venture capital, financial infrastructure and empowering builders (https://venturehacks.com/save-the-world)

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. Full details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.