Pilot.com · 11 hours ago
Engineering Manager
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$197K/yr - $267K/yr
2+ years expPilot.com is on a mission to be the back office for every small business in America, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager to help achieve this goal. The role involves leading a team of engineers, mentoring them, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions to enhance the financial health of small businesses.
AccountingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Bookkeeping and PayrollFinancial ServicesFinTechProfessional ServicesSoftware
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 team’s 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 team’s 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 Pilot’s future accelerated growth and need someone with strong foundations who will set us up to scale
Qualification
Required
At least two years of experience in an official managerial role
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 you've played a significant role in their execution
Team dynamics: You've 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 it's 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 team's 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
Benefits
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
Company
Pilot.com
Pilot provides the most reliable accounting, CFO, and tax services for startups and small businesses.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$172.1MKey Investors
Akkadian VenturesIndex Ventures
2022-01-01Series Unknown
2021-06-01Secondary Market
2021-01-26Series C· $110.5M
Leadership Team
Jessica McKellar
Founder and CEO
Recent News
2025-12-18
SV Angel
2025-12-01
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