Senior Software Engineer, Pave
Backend
$195.5-264.5k
+ Equity
4+ days a week in office
Employee compensation tools
Open for applications
Employee compensation tools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$195.5-264.5k
+ Equity
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
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience using modern web technologies (TypeScript, Node/Express, MySQL, Redis, BigTable), preferably at technology companies
- Solid architectural vision: You have strong intuition around long-term system design and continuous improvements to performance and scaling
- Strong cross-functional partnership: You love to collaborate with technical and non technical partners and teams to make the right tradeoffs for what should be MVP, and what should come next
- Ability to adjust approach: You have a good sense for when you should cut corners to ship a new piece of functionality, and when you should take the time to invest in a sound architecture for the long-haul
- Nice to have: experience working at B2B SaaS tech companies, especially during hypergrowth
- This role is eligible for sponsorship
What the job involves
- At Pave, our vision is simple--unlock a labor market built on trust
- How are we going to get there? By building a compensation platform powered by the largest real-time compensation dataset on earth, giving you confidence in every compensation decision
- We partner with our customers to help them build and retain world-class teams through planning, communicating and benchmarking their team’s compensation in real time
- We’re growing fast, building an incredible team and product, and having plenty of fun as we do it in our San Francisco and New York City offices
- If playing to win, building with intellectual honesty and focusing on in the Pave platinum standard sounds like fun - we highly encourage you to reach out. We’d love to partner on our journey to change the world of compensation!
- At the heart of every company’s compensation strategy are the following pillars: compensation bands, compensation planning, and total rewards communication
- Creating and maintaining compensation bands in an ever-changing labor market is equal parts art and science
- These bands are then utilized in various compensation planning strategies to reward high performers and retain top talent
- Finally, the output of compensation planning is visualized for employees in their Total Rewards portals where they can continue to simulate how their wealth can grow through refresh programs, promotions, and company growth
- Our Market Pricing and Plan & Execute teams build the products that enable our customers do so in a frictionless and transparent way
- Over the next year, we have an ambitious roadmap that encompass the entire compensation strategy lifecycle: how customers define their compensation philosophies, model their jobs in Pave, understand trends in market data, translate trends into their compensation bands, apply band adjustments into merit cycle planning, communicate compensation adjustments to eligible employees, and help employees understand the value of their compensation over time
- Within our agile teams, we value strong ownership and collaboration
- Team members move between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days while closely iterating with cross functional partners on requirements
- We expect you to be comfortable and excited about navigating ambiguity
- We’re looking for product-centric engineers to help us embark on this journey together — we’re only scratching the surface!
Application process
- The majority of our roles have 3-5 interview rounds. You can expect to hear back from our team within 7 days of application, as well as within 2 days after each interview round. Once we extend an offer, we hope to hear back from you within 1 week
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. This bodes well for the company’s ongoing success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Tech & tools
"Our product is disrupting an industry that touches almost anyone employed - compensation. I'm fired up about the impact Pave has in the market for..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Aug 2021
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $170m
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 values
- Bring Your Fire
- Be Intellectually Honest
- Focus On Impact
- Be Transparent
- Hug Of Jawn
- Stretch The Rubber Band, But Don’t Break It
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Matt Schulman
(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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