Bilt Company Culture & Values

What word describes your company culture and why?
Ownership.

I chose this word because people here own entire domains — not just tasks. We’re structured so single engineers hold responsibility for surprisingly wide swaths of work, from spec-ing out complex third-party integrations to implementation and rollout. My team owns customer-facing features related to our dining partnerships — not only do we rigorously test during development, but we are out at restaurants testing our work and constantly monitoring for errors as we ship new features. We take great pride in the quality and speed of our work.

This level of responsibility is challenging and empowering — it really pushes you to grow. You’ll often be the sole expert at the entire company for something mission-critical. And this level of responsibility comes quickly after you join. An engineer who recently joined our team owned the entire consolidation of a major fitness integration into our core platform as her first project. You’re given real responsibility from day one and you rise to meet that trust.

What’s the coolest project you’ve worked on recently, and how did it help you grow professionally?
The coolest project I’ve worked on recently was our Barry’s integration, which I owned end to end from technical scoping through launch. This included building new capabilities into our fitness platform while coordinating with the Barry’s engineering and product teams, and our own internal stakeholders.

What made this special was my level of involvement — I wasn’t just coding, I was shaping the product experience directly with the Barry’s team and making architectural decisions for our entire fitness vertical.

This project helped my growth beyond pure technical skills. I had to balance diverse stakeholder needs, translate technical constraints into business tradeoffs and balance shipping fast with building for scale. Wearing multiple hats — engineer, project lead and technical contact — reinforced that engineering is about driving outcomes across the entire organization, not just writing excellent code.