Software Engineer - Developer Platform

Who We Are

At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500 companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.

Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190 billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.

The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.

The Research & Development Org 

Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500 client organizations.

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. We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale.

Learn more about our engineering principles here!

The Developer Team @ Pave

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.

What You'll Bring

• 5 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.

Our stack includes: TypeScript, Node.js, Orbstack, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Cursor, and Incident.io.

Compensation, It's What We Do.

Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels.

The targeted cash compensation for this position is (level depends on experience and performance in the interview process):

Mid-Level P3: $166,000 - $225,400
Senior-Level P4: $195,500 - $264,500

Life @ Pave 

Since being founded in 2019, Pave has established a robust global footprint. Headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, we operate strategic regional hubs across New York City's Flatiron District, Salt Lake City, and the United Kingdom. We cultivate a vibrant, collaborative workplace culture through our hybrid model, bringing teams together in-person on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to foster innovation and strengthen professional relationships

Benefits @ Pave

At Pave, career advancement drives everything—roles expand, responsibilities deepen, and compensation rises alongside your professional growth.

What we provide

• Complete Health Coverage: Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs 
• Time off & Flexibility: Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for a month 
• Meals & Snacks: Lunch & dinner stipends as well as fully stocked kitchens to fuel you
• Professional Development: Quarterly education stipend to continuously grow
• Family Support: Robust parental leave to bond with your new family
• Commuter Assistance: A commuter stipend to help you collaborate in person 

Vision - Our vision is to unlock a labor market built on trust

Mission - Our team's mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision

Are you ready to help our customers make smarter, more effective compensation decisions?