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Software Engineer, Product - San Francisco California
Company: Pilot Location: San Francisco, California
Posted On: 01/29/2025
The RolePilot is a successful startup, and we're hiring generalist software engineers for our product teams.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. From the SMB Product group - teams that ingest customer financial data in order to deliver insights to thousands of SMBs across the country, to the Business Universe - teams that ingest our customer revenue and expense information and produce accurate, automated accounting: all of our teams have exciting missions and ambitious roadmaps.Pilot's 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.Pilot's backend is written in fully typed Python 3.11, and our frontend is JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js. 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).
- Creating and contributing to technical specs and testing/rollout plans.
- Working with internal customers and stakeholders to ensure we're solving the right problems.
- Collaborating with your teammates in pursuit of your own and the project's goals.
- Supporting your software and services as required.About YouEven if you don't have experience with the specific technologies in our stack, we'd love to talk to you! Our requirements are:
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience with Python in production is a plus
- Able to work collaboratively across functions
- Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills
- Able to write well-structured, well-tested, and maintainable codeAdditionally, we're interested in engineers with specialties or backgrounds in accounting, fintech, and/or data pipelines - these are not required, but a bonus.About PilotPilot 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 1,000 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 - .Why Pilot?
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