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Miter is a fast-growing vertical SaaS company on a mission to modernize construction contractor operations. Since launching in 2021, the company has grown to thousands of customers and tens of millions in ARR, backed by top-tier investors (Bessemer, Coatue, Battery). Miter uses AI and embedded payments to rebuild core HR, finance, and operations systems for construction and field services contractors, replacing outdated 1980s-1990s on-premise software.
As Engineering Manager for Financials, you will build both a team and a product line from the ground up in 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 enormous sums through systems never designed to work together, and correctness is critical. You will grow a small team into a full Financials pod, hiring the engineers you lead, and expand the product from expenses, reimbursements, and per diems into enterprise-ready financial systems. You will own the roadmap, architecture, and quality bar, working directly with the CEO and earliest Financials customers to discover what needs to be built.
This is a greenfield project with the backing of a company that already has thousands of customers and proven market traction. The engineering will be genuinely hard: real money, correctness that must hold, and architecture decisions that will matter in three years. You will own those calls and have direct impact on how contractors across the country manage their finances.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and hire the Financials team: grow a small engineering team, find and attract engineers you will lead, then onboard, coach, and manage performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Own delivery and technical direction: set roadmap, architecture, and quality bar for Financials; own reliability for business-critical systems.
- Partner directly with CEO and early customers: work closely with leadership and Miter's earliest Financials customers to discover what to build.
- Move fast without mortgaging the future: default to speed on ambiguous, greenfield surface while making architecture and product decisions that hold long term.
Requirements:
- 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 details wrong has real consequences.
- Ability to design and evolve correctness-critical transactional systems at scale, where money moves and numbers must be exactly right. Strong enough as an engineer to be among the best on the team when called on.
- 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 with both executives and demanding customers.
- Nice to have: vertical SaaS, construction or field-services, or workforce and payroll experience; direct experience building financial systems; comfort with latest AI developer tooling; good eye for UX.
