Engineering Manager

The Role

Pilots mission is to be the back office for every small business in America and were hiring an engineering manager to help make this future a reality.

We are giving every SMB the superpowers of a full finance team at a fraction of the cost. These superpowers include having a deep understanding of the 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.

Were looking for a caring empathetic engineering manager with a technical background that are excited to build and ship software iteratively. We value being close to our customers iterating quickly and learning from what we ship. Our teams operate on high trust and we prioritize ownership over the outcomes youre responsible for: building great products that move the needle for our customers.

All of our teams have unique charters to collectively build the software services and systems that enable Pilot to deliver a high-quality experience profitably at scale. This role is for the Banking Fundamentals team which is responsible for foundational banking and credit card data and the insights Pilot can provide based on that data.

Our tech stack: 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.

This is a hybrid position with the expectation to work in the San Francisco office on Monday Tuesday and Thursday.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels personalities work styles and professional goals.
• Create a team environment that values collaboration inclusion and respect.
• Provide continuous feedback address underperformance and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members.
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges within the team within the context of the larger Engineering organization.
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the teams code architecture and processes.
• Grow the team thoughtfully by understanding business needs addressing team skill gaps and prioritizing a diverse top of funnel.
• Work with your engineers and stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog and create short term and long term goals.
• Help your team build relationships across Engineering Operations and any other stakeholders who are relevant to the teams strategy.
• Work across teams to shape development at Pilot (e.g. defining best practices choosing technologies evolving our tech stack).
• Think medium- to long-term. We are building for Pilots future accelerated growth and need someone with strong foundations who will set us up to scale.

About You

In order to successfully fulfill the responsibilities outlined above we have a small set of requirements. As our ideal candidate you will have at least two years of experience in an official managerial role and you can demonstrate experience with most the following:

• Managing engineers performance: This could include managing out performance corrections giving continuous feedback and investing in strong performers.
• Growing teams: You can identify the need for headcount define hiring criteria and act as an owner throughout the entire recruiting lifecycle.
• Technical execution and dependency management: Your teams have shipped complex features with dependencies or stakeholders from outside the team and youve played a significant role in their execution.
• Team dynamics: Youve diagnosed a number of issues affecting morale or execution and found various solutions.
• Fostering inclusion within a diverse team: We are a diverse team representing a variety of identities and experiences. Our managers must show an ability to understand and support the needs of marginalized individuals.
• Relationship building: Whether its with your engineers peers customers or vendors you invest in relationships that benefit your team.
• Technical design and strategy: While we expect little to no code output from our Engineering Managers we look for folks with strong technical backgrounds who can hold their own in technical design discussions and represent the details of their teams technology to others.

Thoughtful about AI in engineering workflows: We seek to make the most of the latest AI tools while also mitigating their risks and downsides.

Note: while we do look to hire Engineering Managers with prior engineering management experience even if you dont exactly fit all of the requirements above were always interested in talking to great managers so get in touch!

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 2000 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

• The opportunity to join a seasoned founding team that has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox).
• Drive impact and change the trajectory of Pilot - were small enough that your work makes a big difference in Pilots success.
• Flexible vacation/time-off policy
• All federal holidays are observed
• Competitive benefits package including wellness benefits such as One Medical Calm Spring Health Carrot Pro and more
• 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 between $182000 - $247000 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 Pilots recruiting notices here including our EEO policy recruitment agency policy recruitment scam notice and important E-Verify information.