# Founding Engineer
**Company:** [AngelList](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/angellist)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, React, Node.js, Full-Stack, Web Applications, Architecture Design, Two-Sided Marketplaces, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Systems
**Posted:** 2025-04-02
> Founding engineer owns technical design and delivery of investing and portfolio management features for a new private markets wealth platform. Requires 6+ years experience as full-stack generalist or frontend specialist with 0-1 product ownership in regulated domains.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Own technical design and delivery of major product surfaces across investing and portfolio management, from early architecture through launch and iteration.
- Build a category-defining wealth platform for private markets.
- Drive high-leverage engineering decisions early, shaping architecture and quality bar.
- Ship features that increase investor engagement and investment volume.
- Collaborate with product, design, supply, legal, and compliance.
- Develop fluency in private market investing workflows and regulated financial products.

## Requirements
- 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.
- Strong technical judgment, understanding tradeoffs, voicing opinions, making fast decisions.
- Experience building foundational systems, architecture/sequencing decisions with long-term impact.
- Experience with two-sided marketplaces or regulatory domains.
- High ownership mindset, bias toward action, comfort debating technical decisions.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Deep curiosity about venture capital, financial infrastructure, and empowering builders.
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