For Founders by Founders: Engineering at AngelList

AngelList was founded on a simple premise: Serve the founder.

This has attracted an abundance of entrepreneurial talent to AngelList over the years—so much so that most of the engineering team is composed of former and future founders.

As we scale, we’re looking for more engineers who want to do the work that founders do.

Here’s what that means.

Contribute More Than Code

We hire engineers who want to do more than just code. This means driving business strategy, developing and refining product management skills, and working tightly with stakeholders across operations, marketing, and legal.

Engineers at AngelList decide what needs to be done and then do it.

Empower the Person Closest to a Problem

We believe in giving ownership to the person who knows the problem best.

This is reflected in how our engineering team is structured. We’re organized in small, focused pods built on mutual respect, high trust, and low management.

Each pod owns a core aspect of our offering and is trusted to define features, solutions, and new products to drive the business forward. We scale through distributed decision-making, rather than strict gatekeeping mechanisms.

Move With Urgency by Scoping Down

Founders move with speed, urgency, and precision. So do we. We expect team members to move fast by scoping down large initiatives and ambiguous problems into the small number of details that need to be perfect.

We view everything as a migration path. If there’s an end destination, it will likely require multiple discrete steps to get there. By scoping down, we keep momentum high, sanity in check, and reach the goal faster.

Embrace Original Ideas

Our team works on the edge of VC, defining the future of the industry as a whole. To do this, we original ideas—and that comes from bringing a diverse set of people and backgrounds together.