Head of Engineering

Overview

Copilot Money is a small team that believes providing access to better financial insights and tools improves people’s lives. Our product is a personal finance management app for iOS and Mac that people actually love using. Copilot uses machine learning to deliver powerful, hyper-personalized finance data insights to help users understand and manage spending, budgeting, and investing, with crowdsourced feedback to continuously improve the experience.

Apple named Copilot a finalist for the 2024 Apple Design Awards and one of the best finance apps in the App Store.

Why should you work with us?

• A product people love: Copilot users are highly engaged and share the app with friends and family.
• A team that cares: We’re data-focused and value good coffee. We go the extra mile to make our users happy.
• Significant impact: We are a small, thirty-person team with big ambitions and experience from Google and Apple.
• Multicultural team: Based in NYC and Santiago, Chile.
• Great company culture: A highly collaborative, learning-oriented team.

Copilot is looking for a Head of Engineering to partner closely with our CTO and lead the day-to-day management of our entire Engineering team. This includes our iOS, Web, and Backend engineers across our New York City and Santiago, Chile offices. As we scale, we seek a strong engineering leader who can help us stay nimble, aligned, and focused on quality.

You will be instrumental in ensuring our engineering organization delivers a best-in-class product while maintaining velocity and culture.

This is a hybrid position based in New York City. You’ll be required to come into the office at least 2 times a week along with the rest of the team. Remote work is available for the rest of the week, with the office always open if you want to use it more often.

• Support and develop engineering managers and team leads across iOS, Web, and Backend. Set clear goals, ensure strong execution, and build a high-performing, collaborative team.
• Help scale our engineering processes, including cycle planning, prioritization, hiring, and internal communication.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Operations teams to align on company goals and ensure efficient, transparent road mapping and delivery.
• Work closely with our CTO and Staff Engineers to shape and refine our technical strategy, architecture, and platform investments.
• Champion a strong engineering culture rooted in trust, inclusion, autonomy, and continual improvement.

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with around 4 years in a leadership or management role.
• Proven experience managing cross-functional and multi-location teams.
• Background in consumer product development, preferably in high-scale mobile or fintech apps.
• Deep understanding of software development best practices across frontend and backend.
• Passion for building simple, elegant solutions to complex technical and human challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Based in New York City or able to commute to our NYC office at least twice a week.

• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment, ideally at the Series A/B/C stage.
• Exposure to or familiarity with our tech stack:
  Node.js, Type Script, Firebase, Swift, React.
• Experience with Generative AI.
• Experience scaling engineering processes and teams.
• Previous involvement in recruiting, hiring, and team design at a strategic level.
• Understanding of Dev Ops, CI/CD, observability, and data-driven product iteration.

• Annual Salary of $230k to $260k
• Equity in the company
• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance (company pays 100% premium for employee)
• 401k matching up to 4%
• Home Office Setup, and monthly Internet reimbursement (up to $80/month)
• Wellness Reimbursement ($100/month)
• 4 weeks of PTO. After 2 years in the company you get 5 extra vacation days, and 5 more after 4 years.
• Annual company retreats.

At Copilot Money, we believe that diverse teams build better products. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Join us in our mission to help the world stress less about money and create financial clarity for all!