Engineering Manager

About the Team & How We Work

As Engineering Manager for Financials at Miter, you will build both a team and a product line from the ground up. This is a player-coach role where you will lead a small, growing engineering pod while remaining one of the strongest engineers on it, taking new Financials products from zero to one on top of Miter's construction payroll and HR platform. This team will act as a startup within Miter, moving quickly and working directly with customers to build great products.

You will grow a small team into a full Financials pod, hiring the engineers you will lead, and you will expand the product from expenses, reimbursements, and per diems into enterprise-ready financial systems. You will own the roadmap, the architecture, and the quality bar for systems where correctness is not negotiable: money movement, ledgers, reconciliation. You will work directly with our CEO and with our earliest Financials customers, discovering what needs to be built as you build it.

There is no playbook for this product yet. You will write it, on a greenfield surface backed by a company with thousands of customers and real distribution behind it, in an industry that has run on the same outdated software for forty years. You will have a direct impact on how contractors across the country manage their money, ultimately helping them build a better built world.

What You'll Do

• Build and hire the Financials team: grow a small engineering pod, and find, attract, and hire the engineers you will lead, then onboard, coach, and run performance for them.
• Ship 0->1 Financials products: take multiple new experiences from zero to one, expanding from expenses, reimbursements, and per diems into enterprise-ready AP, AR, and accounting for contractors.
• Stay hands-on as a player-coach: operate as one of the strongest engineers on the team on the hardest problems, setting the technical bar through code and design rather than from the sidelines.
• Own delivery and technical direction: set the roadmap, architecture, and quality bar for Financials, and own reliability for business-critical systems.
• Partner directly with the CEO and early customers: work closely with our CEO and with Miter's earliest Financials customers to discover what we need to build as we build it.
• Move fast without mortgaging the future: default to speed on an ambiguous, greenfield surface while making architecture and product decisions that hold up long term.

What You'll Need

• A significant hands-on engineering career at senior or staff level, now moving into or early in engineering management. This is a first or second management role, not a junior-overall profile.
• Experience taking 0->1 products or new product lines from scratch to shipped, not only scaling mature ones.
• Experience in a genuinely complex, high-correctness domain such as fintech, payments, accounting, or payroll, where getting the details wrong has real consequences.
• The ability to design and evolve correctness-critical transactional systems at scale: money movement, ledgers, reconciliation. Strong enough as an engineer to be among the best on the team when called on.
• A track record of attracting and hiring strong engineers, and of raising a small team's level through direct feedback and technical mentorship.
• Decisiveness under ambiguity, and credibility both with executives and directly with demanding customers.
• Nice to have: vertical SaaS, construction or field-services, or workforce and payroll experience; direct AP/AR, general-ledger or accounting-product experience; comfort with the latest AI developer tooling; a good eye for UX.

Hybrid vs. Remote Approach

We believe the magic of Miter comes from working side by side. We also believe in work flexibility. For roles that are listed as hybrid, our approach is 3 days a week in the office giving us the chance to connect, brainstorm, and build stronger relationships. If you live within a reasonable commute to either our New York City or San Francisco offices, we ask that you work in our hybrid approach.

Otherwise, for roles listed as remote or in other cities where we don't have an office location, there is no requirement to work in our hybrid approach. We do travel a few times a year for onboarding, company-wide and team specific off-sites!