Senior Software Engineer, Pave
Developer Platform
$195.5-264.5k
3-4 days a week in office
Employee compensation tools
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Employee compensation tools
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$195.5-264.5k
3-4 days a week in office
101-200 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
- 4+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or developer experience
- High developer empathy - you love improving workflows and enabling others to move faster
- Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous projects with cross-team impact
- A track record of improving developer velocity with modern AI tooling - agentic coding, AI-assisted review/testing - and strong opinions on where it does and doesn't help
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar). A strong instinct for reliability and security - you understand that on a platform handling compensation data, speed cannot come at the cost of trust
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with experience scaling production systems
- Nice to Have: Experience building internal developer platforms in enterprise SaaS environments
What the job involves
- The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering
- Our customers are Pave's own engineers
- We treat developer experience as a product - the leverage layer that lets every team ship enterprise-grade software fast and reliably
- This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll help define how Pave builds software
- As a senior engineer, you'll lead initiatives end to end - from setting CI/CD and observability standards to rethinking local development workflows and incident response - and you'll define how AI-assisted and agentic workflows fit into Pave's development loop, from scaffolding to review to deploy
- You'll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability
- You'll own the metrics for developer velocity and reliability, and be accountable for moving them
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
(Founder & CEO)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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