Lead the Financials engineering team at Miter, building new financial products for construction contractors.
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20% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
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Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
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In the role of Engineering Manager for Financials at Miter, the individual will lead a small engineering team while actively contributing to the development of new financial products tailored for construction contractors. Key skills include a strong engineering background, particularly in complex domains like fintech, and experience in building products from inception to launch. This position is ideal for someone transitioning into management with a proven track record in hiring and mentoring engineers. Miter's rapid growth and focus on innovative solutions in the construction sector provide a dynamic environment for this role.
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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: you will lead a small, growing engineering team while remaining one of the strongest engineers on it, taking new financial products from zero to one on top of Miter's construction payroll and HR platform.
Construction contractors move large sums through disjointed systems that were never designed to work together. You will grow a small team into a full Financials pod, hiring the engineers and expanding the product from expenses, reimbursements, and per diems into enterprise-ready financial systems. You will influence the roadmap, working directly with our CEO and with our earliest Financials customers, discovering what needs to be built as you build it.
This is a greenfield project, but with the backing of a company that already has thousands of customers and a proven wedge into the industry. You will help the team make the correct engineering decisions for a business-critical system that needs to last for many years. You will own those calls, working directly with our CEO and with the customers who live with the result, and you will have a direct impact on how contractors across the country manage their money, ultimately helping them build a better built world
Build and hire the Financials team: grow a small engineering team, 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 financial systems 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.
A significant hands-on engineering career at senior or staff level, now moving into or early in 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, or payroll, where getting the details wrong has real consequences.
The ability to design and evolve correctness-critical transactional systems at scale, where money moves, and the numbers have to be exactly right. 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 experience building financial systems; comfort with the latest AI developer tooling; a good eye for UX.
Recruiter Screen
Hiring Manager Interview
Technical Interview
Virtual Onsite (Values & System Design)
Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive (well above “market”) salary, commission, and equity packages.
Flexible PTO: Take the time you need to recharge and be your best self.
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