Pilot.com
Sr. Software Engineer
San Francisco, California · Senior · Part-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$27,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Pilot is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Bookkeeping Automation team.
- Our work includes reconciliation tools, integrations with third-party financial systems, and the platform capabilities needed to operate deterministic automation and agent-assisted workflows safely and reliably in production.
- This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys solving complex automation problems.
Responsibilities
- Own projects end to end, from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and measurement
- Design reliable workflows across services, internal tools, and human operational processes
- Build observability and evaluation into automation systems so teams can measure quality, investigate failures, and improve performance over time
- Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and bookkeeping and operations experts to turn ambiguous problems into practical solutions
- Investigate production issues, support the services you own, and address systemic reliability problems
- Mentor and sponsor teammates and contribute to engineering standards through technical designs and thoughtful code reviews
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals and the ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
- Experience with Python in production
- A track record of owning and shipping customer-facing or business-critical systems end to end
- Experience designing, operating, and debugging reliable production systems
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and teach others
Nice to have
- Experience with fintech, accounting, or financial operations tooling
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs and external systems
- Experience with system security, permissions, or handling sensitive data
- 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.
- 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 opportunity to join a seasoned founding team that has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox).
Skills
- Build, test, and deploy well-structured, well-tested software continuously
- Contribute to the security, auditability, and reliability of systems that handle sensitive financial data
Compensation
- $166k-$200k
Company info
- Pilot integrates directly with the billing, banking, expense, and payroll systems customers already use.
- Pilot has over 3,000 customers and has raised over $170 million in financing from Sequoia, Index Ventures, Stripe, Bezos Expeditions, and Whale Rock.
- We're looking for someone who has:
Visa & Work Authorization
- Mentor and sponsor teammates and contribute to engineering standards through technical designs and thoughtful code reviews
This listing is sourced directly from Pilot.com's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.