Staff Software Engineer, Takeoff
Remoteremotestaff$200K – $240K
via Greenhouse
About this role
The Role
Pilot is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Takeoff team.
The Takeoff team owns core accounting systems behind Pilot's bookkeeping: how transactions get categorized, how revenue from platforms like Stripe and Shopify gets recognized over the right periods, and how it all ties back to accurate financials. What we ship shows up directly in our customers' books.
As a Staff Engineer, you'll take on the largest and most ambiguous problems in this space: setting technical direction for systems that sit at the core of Pilot's product, and driving outcomes that span multiple teams.
Pilot's backend is written in fully typed Python, and our frontend stack includes JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js.…
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For this role: typescript, javascript, python, vue, postgres…
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