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Pilot.com | San Francisco | Senior Software Engineers, Staff Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | https://pilot.com | Hybrid/SF & Remote (US)

Pilot runs your business’s financial back office so you don’t have to: our 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.

We care about building a thoughtful, high-trust culture that values ownership and shipping. We’re looking to hire teammates from different backgrounds and experiences and are hiring for a number of engineering roles:

* Software Engineer, Product (2-5yrs experience) * Senior Software Engineer, Product (5+ years experience) * Engineering Manager (2+ years of EM experience)

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.

https://pilot.com/jobs or email me (leo at pilot dot com)

Pilot (https://pilot.com) | San Francisco (Onsite, Hybrid) | Full time

Pilot runs your business’s financial back office so you don’t have to: our 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.

We care about building a thoughtful, high-trust culture that values ownership and shipping. We’re looking to hire teammates from different backgrounds and experiences and are hiring for a number of engineering roles:

* Software Engineer, Product (2-5yrs experience) * Senior Software Engineer, Product (5+ years experience) * Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (

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 Banking Universe — teams that ingest, normalize, transform, and categorize customer financial data to the Business Universe — teams that ingest our customer revenue and expense information and produce accurate, automated accounting, you’ll work with a empathetic team that builds software that humans use and businesses rely on.

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.

https://pilot.com/jobs or email me leo@pilot.com

Pilot (https://pilot.com/) | Full-time | Onsite (SF) | Sr Software Engineer (Backend or Full-Stack)

Pilot is a Series-C funded, 7-year-old successful startup that partners with other companies to run their financial back office. We let small businesses focus on what they do best -- running their business -- and offload to us the financial back office. We build software that makes this possible: software that enables us to deliver a high-quality bookkeeping, CFO, Tax etc service while also scaling to thousands of customers.

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 is already one of the biggest bookkeeping firms in the country (if not the biggest!) and we're just getting started (we also have 3+ years of runway and not imminently in need of any fundraise).

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. The Accounting Engine team enables Pilot to build our bookkeeping service on an increasingly real-time foundation of customer financial data. We're hiring a senior engineer who loves to go deep in complex systems, and who loves to bring order to chaos :)

If this sounds interesting, please reach out!

Reach us at https://pilot.com/jobs or email me (Pilot's Head of Engineering) at leo[[at]]pilot.com.

Hi HN! I'm Leo, Pilot's Head of Engineering, and we're hiring across the board for engineers, product designers, product managers, and more.

If you want to come work for a growing startup that's selling a service that every business needs (a good thing in a macroeconomic downturn!), with a wonderful, diverse team that cares about their users and each other -- I'd love to chat. Feel free to reach out :)

(Hiring in SF and US-remote. Full jobs page here: https://pilot.com/jobs, or feel free to email me at firstname @pilot.com. Our stack is fully typed Python 3.10 on the backend, Vue/TS on the frontend, and AWS)

Hacker School is 4 days a week (at least this batch and last batch). You can definitely work part time during HS. I worked during the last batch of hacker school, and as a commenter above says, it's possible to live (he's doing it!) in NYC paying $650/mo in rent.

That doesn't look like an arbitrary social barrier designed to exclude the many to me. MOOCs are still there, and still awesome.

Awesome! I'm happy to go on at (much) further length about why it's so awesome and why you and any hacker absolutely should consider it.

Feel free to shoot me an email @gmail.com if you have any questions!

I quit my software engineer job to attend Hacker School (Fall 2012). Undoubtedly the best decision I have made in the last 3 + years.

I am now once again working as a software engineer, and would not trade those 3 months at HS for anything.

Qt5's QML2 is using V8 as the JS engine and an opengl es2 scenegraph, so it's actually quite fast. Depending on your embedded platform, you should still be able to achieve pretty impressive performance.

I pretty much left my programming job to come to HS. As i'm in the current batch, i'm entering the nob market around now. While I don't know about average salary or job placement rates, if you are a professional programmer before hacker school you'll only be a much better professional programmer after hacker school, and that means it won't be too difficult to get a job.

But Hacker School is not a job placement program. It is a place for people who love programming to come to become better at their craft. That this results in increase job opportunities afterwards is often a beneficial side effect, but not the primary motivator for people to come here.

Disclaimer: I am in the current batch.

I don't know if there is a 'pitch' concerning pausing college for a semester. I think the same thing applies as for those people (like me) who quit their programming jobs to come to hacker school:

I've learned more in the last 2 months than I have in the last year at my job. Pair programming with people who are better than you in a specific skill is an incredible way to learn. If you love programming and want to become a better programmer by spending time doing what you love with other people who are driven by the same passions, come to hacker school. You have found your space.