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LeadFull-time
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Nova platform team at AngelList. This role involves defining and designing how the team builds, owning the domain model and architectural patterns, and driving critical initiatives forward.
Key Responsibilities
- →Own Nova's domain model and architectural direction, identifying core financial workflows and rebuilding them using standard architecture patterns.
- →Raise the team's ceiling through code review, system design pairing, and ADRs that make architectural decisions legible and teachable.
- →Drive technical direction across Nova's service boundaries, shaping integration contracts with Banking/Treasury, KYC, and Fund Administration.
- →Partner with product and engineering leadership to surface technical risk early and shape roadmaps around domain realities.
- →Make high-judgment technical calls in ambiguous situations, especially where correctness, auditability, and financial risk intersect.
- →Contribute hands-on code to the codebase alongside leadership responsibilities.
Requirements
- ✓Operated at staff level or equivalent with high autonomy and impact beyond the immediate team.
- ✓Strong domain modeling instincts, thinking in terms of aggregates, invariants, and boundaries.
- ✓Demonstrated multiplier effect on engineering teams, defining patterns that measurably improved team performance.
- ✓Earned architectural authority through judgment and follow-through, not title.
- ✓Comfort in high-stakes, domain-rich systems with a track record of building deep domain expertise quickly.
- ✓Hands-on coding ability, writing production code regularly and reviewing others' work rigorously.
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