Senior Software Engineer, Pave
Developer Platform
$166-264.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Employee compensation tools
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Employee compensation tools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$166-264.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the world's best compensation tools and easily accessible market data so companies can plan, communicate, and benchmark in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale
- 3+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience engineering
- Passion for improving developer experience and velocity
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills
- Proven ability to lead ambiguous projects with cross-team impact
- Excellent communication and developer empathy - you enjoy enabling others to work more effectively
- Execution-oriented mindset - you’re comfortable diving deep into technical details to deliver real impact
- Nice to Have: Experience with CI/CD, observability, TypeScript, monorepo tooling, automated testing, expertise with GCP (or another major cloud provider), or AI/ML tooling
What the job involves
- This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500+ client organizations
- Our engineering team moves between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days while closely iterating with cross-functional partners on requirements. At Pave, we use TypeScript, Node.js, and React, hosted on GCP
- Compensation strategy is broken down into 3 pillars - compensation bands, planning workflows, and total rewards communication. We build products that make these processes seamless for customers
- Over the next year, our roadmap is focused on enhancing the entire compensation lifecycle: from philosophy definition to market trend analysis, band adjustments, merit cycles, and employee communication
- The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. We own the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows that enable every team to ship enterprise-grade software with speed and confidence
- As an engineer on the team, you’ll play a technical leadership role in shaping developer experience, scaling our production systems, and establishing foundational engineering patterns adopted across the org
- Our stack includes: TypeScript, Node.js, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Cursor, and Incident.io
Our take
Compensation survey and merit cycle processes are integral to so many businesses, and yet remain time-consuming manual activities. Staff often lack financial training resulting in spreadsheet induced errors. Pave saw a need to update and streamline the process.
The core advantage of Pave is its ease of integration with HRIS, ATS and cap table software, creating real-time compensation data views without the need for spreadsheets. Using the software creates a fair and transparent system that management can rely on and employees can respect. The company has seen strong momentum, with backing from big names like Y Combinator and az16.
Some organisations have been reluctant to adopt solutions like Pave’s on account of the radical transparency it provides. However, with companies like Credit Karma, Miro and Discord all signing on, Pave has proven its ability to draw lucrative enterprise-level clients. It also became a Unicorn in 2022 after an impressive Series C funding round, boding well for its longevity.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Aug 2021
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $186.2m
Company benefits
- Compensation: Startup equity for full-time employees
- Wellness: Top tier health insurance along for full-time employees
- Food: All meals while working, plus snacks. We take our snacking seriously
- Commute: Commuter pre-tax benefit accounts + employer contribution for full-time employees
- Tech: Choose your laptop and accessories of choice
- Team: Retreats, happy hours, and events for our team, friends, and family
- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - we encourage our team to unplug with unlimited PTO
- WFH Wednesday: A dedicated work from home day each week + additional flexibility by team!
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt Schulman
(CEO & Founder)Matt studied at the Wharton School before working as an Engineer at DollarsEd and spending 2 years as a Facebook Software Engineer. He left this role in June 2019 to co-found Pave in October.
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