Staff Software Engineer at Caplight

Join a small, elite team as a key early hire building the infrastructure for private market transactions. You will own features end-to-end—from identifying customer problems and writing briefs to shipping polished products. Whether a product-minded generalist or a high-output data architect, you’ll leverage LLMs to automate complex venture workflows.

• Identify critical customer problems and write the business cases and technical briefs for features without needing detailed direction from founders.
• Build and ship polished, end-to-end features, managing the full lifecycle from design and scoping to deployment at an industry-leading pace.
• Architect and maintain sophisticated data pipelines or product infrastructure, utilizing AI coding agents and LLMs to multiply your output and impact.

• Has extensive 0-to-1 experience as a founder or early engineer at a top startup, with a proven track record of shipping successful products.
• Possesses a top-tier educational background from a top 25 US or top 30 international university and is “AI-pilled,” aggressively using LLMs in their production workflow.
• Demonstrates strong product sense and design instincts, acting as a hybrid engineer/PM/designer who thrives in high-trust, low-bureaucracy environments.

• Work on the “Bloomberg of private markets,” building the essential data and trading infrastructure for the global venture capital and secondary ecosystem.
• Experience true founder-level ownership in an RFC-first culture where there are no PMs, and engineers drive the business case and product roadmap.
• Tackle unique technical challenges involving LLM-driven data pipelines, entity reconciliation at scale, and real-time pricing models for hundreds of pre-IPO companies.