Principal, Engineering Services

About the job Engineering Manager

What we're building
Every company needs to keep track of its finances, and most hire a bookkeeping firm to help do so. But there's no Stripe, Gusto, or Google Apps of this world-no clear best-in-class firm that everyone uses because it delivers a service of unmatched quality and integrates with the tools and workflows to run your business as it grows. Pilot is building a first-of-its-kind, software-centric solution to tackle the financial back office (including bookkeeping, tax, CFO, etc.) Our approach is to use software to automate as much of the heavy lifting as possible and giving those software superpowers to a team of finance experts. This means that our customers, business owners, can focus on the reasons they started their businesses in the first place, instead of worrying about whether their bookkeeping is being done well.
We are looking for experienced engineering managers to lead and build teams at Pilot, both within our Infrastructure and Product Engineering organizations.
Lead a team of talented engineers who like to ship code and tackle hard engineering problems.
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.
Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges within the team, within the context of the larger Engineering organization.
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 Infrastructure team's strategy.
Work across teams to shape development and Engineering culture at Pilot (e.g. defining best practices, choosing technologies, evolving our tech stack, iterating on our interview process).
Managing engineers' performance: This could include managing out, performance corrections, giving continuous feedback, identifying goals and stretch assignments, and investing in strong performers.
Your teams have shipped complex features with dependencies or stakeholders from outside the team, and you've played a significant role in their execution.
Fostering inclusion within a diverse team: Relationship building: Whether it's with your engineers, peers, customers, or vendors, you invest in relationships that benefit your team.
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.

Our 25-person Engineering org is divided into three separate teams, each with their own missions and charters. We work collaboratively: we pair with each other (often across teams), we work on projects in groups, and we meet with our customers to inform what we build.
Pilot's backend is written in fully typed Python 3.8, and our frontend is JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js. AWS CodeDeploy powers our deployments and we rely on Postgres as our database. Our Engineering team is located in San Francisco, and our SF office is located right next to the Montgomery Street BART stop - though of course right now we are all working from home. We are currently only considering managers who live in or will relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area post-COVID.
Our seasoned founding team has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox), and our engineering managers have a breadth of experience at companies of varying sizes. We offer competitive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as a 401(k) program.
We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. Pilot's demonstrated commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance.