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San Francisco, California, United States
Hybrid
Pilot is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Enterprise team.
This team builds the firm-facing features for our newest product, Meridian, the AI accounting platform that lets firms scale their practice. We own the experiences a firm's accountants use to review, approve, and deliver agent-produced books across hundreds of clients. As a small, high leverage team within R&D, we partner closely with every other engineering team at Pilot and draw on those relationships to ship the features that move the business forward fastest.As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you’ll build product and platform capabilities that help transform financial data into dependable bookkeeping outcomes. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and operational experts to ship systems that are practical, measurable, and robust.
This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building real-world automation systems and is excited about the engineering challenges that come with agentic workflows, including orchestration, security, evaluation and observability.Pilot’s backend is written in fully typed Python, and our frontend stack includes JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js. We use Terraform to manage infrastructure, deploy containerized services on AWS, and rely on Postgres and modern observability tooling in production.
Location: San Francisco, CA (3 days/week in office - Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays).Even if you don’t have experience with every part of our stack, we’d still love to talk.
We’re looking for someone who has:
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 3,000 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 – Meet Fintech’s Newest Unicorn.
The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $166,000 - $200,000 in San Francisco, CA. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data. In 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 Pilot’s recruiting notices here, including our EEO policy, information 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 policy here.