Staff Software Engineer

Pilot.com

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San Francisco, CA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: $ 231000 - 313000
Posted on: 22 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Role

Pilot is a successful startup hiring a Staff Software Engineer.

Our team is building products that solve meaningful problems for startups and small businesses every day: giving them real-time insights into the health of their business giving them close control and visibility into their books and providing tools for making strategic business and financial decisions that help them save or make money.

Pilots aim is to provide our customers with the same superpowers as large companies with full finance teams superpowers that include having a deep understanding of financial health of the business the machinery to constantly improve it and the predictive abilities to thoughtfully plan for the future. We do this at a fraction of the cost a large company would pay for this by delivering these capabilities through powerful software.
Pilots backend is written in fully typed Python 3.13 and our frontend is JavaScript TypeScript and . We use Terraform to manage our production infrastructure and deploy Docker containers to ECS. AWS CodeDeploy powers our deployments and we rely on Honeycomb for our monitoring and Postgres as our database.

Key Responsibilities

  • Building testing and deploying software in a continuous manner (we deploy daily or more often)
  • Working with PMs and Product Designers and participating in product and design reviews.
  • Creating and contributing to technical specs and testing/rollout plans.
  • Working with internal customers and stakeholders to ensure were solving the right problems.
  • Mentoring and sponsoring your teammates to help them grow.
  • Supporting your software and services as required.

About You

Even if you dont have experience with the specific technologies in our stack wed love to talk to you! Our requirements are:
  • 7 years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experience with Python in production
  • Able to work collaboratively across functions
  • Strong written verbal and technical communication skills
  • Able to write well-structured well-tested and maintainable code
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and teach others
Additionally were interested in engineers with specialties or backgrounds in accounting as well as fintech and related fields.

About Pilot

Pilot launched in 2017 to bring the back office into the modern era. Pilot provides small businesses with dedicated finance experts - which Pilot hires as full-time U.S.-based employees - who learn the ins-and-outs of their business. Pilot integrates directly with the billing banking expense and payroll systems customers already use. With a special blend of custom software and expert bookkeepers Pilot delivers accurate consistent bookkeeping and financial management and tax services that give entrepreneurs the freedom to focus on their business.

Pilot has over 3000 customers and has raised over $170 million in financing from Sequoia Index Ventures Stripe Bezos Expeditions and Whale Rock. Our investors also include a long list of world-class entrepreneurs including Patrick and John Collison Drew Houston and Diane Greene. Our most recent funding round doubled our valuation to $1.2 billion Meet Fintechs Newest Unicorn.

Why Pilot

  • We invest in our employees development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers
  • The opportunity to join a seasoned founding team that has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox).
  • Flexible vacation/time-off policy
  • All federal holidays are observed
  • Competitive benefits package including wellness benefits such as Modern Health Headscape One Medical Aaptiv and Rightway
  • Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents 100% pay for 12 weeks
  • 401(k) plan

The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $231000 - $313000 in San Francisco CA. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise geographic location total compensation and market addition to cash pay full-time regular positions are eligible for equity 401(k) health benefits and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.

Pilot commits to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment as well as equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. You may view all of Pilotsrecruiting notices here including our EEO policyinformation about requesting a reasonable accommodation in the job application process recruitment agency policy recruitment scam notice and important E-Verify information.You may view our job candidate privacy policyhere.


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The RolePilot is a successful startup hiring a Staff Software Engineer.Our team is building products that solve meaningful problems for startups and small businesses every day: giving them real-time insights into the health of their business giving them close control and visibility into their books ...
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One team for all your accounting needs. Pilot handles your bookkeeping, taxes, forecasting and more. See why thousands of businesses trust Pilot.

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