Join Caplight’s founding team as a Full Stack Engineer to build the infrastructure powering private market trading. You will own entire product areas, from real-time pricing data surfaces to institutional-grade trading interfaces. This high-impact role requires a blend of technical depth, product instinct, and a strong design sense to create sophisticated financial tools.
Full Stack Engineer at Caplight
Caplight is building the real-time data and trading infrastructure that powers serious financial decisions in the historically opaque private markets. We are looking for an "AGI-pilled" Full Stack Engineer to join our founding team in San Francisco, owning product surfaces from data visualization to institutional trading interfaces. If you have 5+ years of experience and high business acumen, this is your chance to shape the future of private market finance.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
$250k-$300k + Equity
Company
Caplight
Role overview
Finance
Caplight is building the Bloomberg Terminal of the private markets. We bring pricing, liquidity signals, and company data together so private-markets investors—VCs, secondary funds, and asset managers—can track, analyze, and source opportunities with clarity. Our platform surfaces real-time intelligence across thousands of private companies, and our marketplace connects investors and brokers to engage in private stock transactions. Caplight gives professionals a clear view of valuation and market activity in an otherwise opaque space. We’re building the data and execution infrastructure that modern VC investing runs on.
What you will do
- Own and build end-to-end product features, from the underlying data infrastructure to the sleek, intuitive interfaces relied on by institutional users.
- Collaborate closely with the small founding team to translate complex business requirements into high-performance financial infrastructure and data surfaces.
- Leverage advanced AI workflows and agent management to ship features rapidly without compromising on design quality or technical robustness.
Who this is a fit for
- At least 5 years of full-stack engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping complex, user-facing products at scale.
- Strong product instincts and an exceptional eye for design, capable of building beautiful, functional features without needing a dedicated designer.
- An entrepreneurial, “AGI-pilled” mindset with high business acumen and the ability to move fast on ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-leverage founding team in San Francisco with significant influence over the product’s direction and the company’s ultimate culture.
- Tackle deep technical challenges in private market infrastructure, turning fragmented, stale data into real-time, institutional-grade trading and pricing tools.
- Experience a unique “AGI-pilled” environment where you are encouraged to max out parallel agent management to accelerate development and product delivery.
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