Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

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 Communicate Team @ Pave

The Communicate team builds the products that help companies communicate compensation with clarity, transparency, and trust. As part of this team, you will own core experiences used every day by thousands of employees, managers, and candidates to understand pay, rewards, and compensation decisions. This is a rare chance to join as a founding engineer on a high-impact product team. You will help define not just what gets built, but how the team operates, shaping the roadmap, influencing technical direction, and helping establish the engineering culture from the ground up. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building elegant, enterprise-grade product experiences for some of the world's leading companies. The team's immediate focus is on expanding enterprise capabilities and building AI-powered compensation intelligence features that help companies make better pay decisions and give employees a clearer understanding of their compensation.

What You'll Do

• Build end-to-end product experiences that help companies like OpenAI, Databricks, and Atlassian communicate compensation to employees & candidates
• Solve enterprise-scale challenges, designing products that perform reliably for organizations with 150,000+ employees
• Develop AI-powered compensation intelligence features that help leaders make better pay decisions and surface issues before they become retention risks
• Play a foundational role in shaping the team and product. As a founding engineer, you will help define the technical architecture, engineering patterns, testing practices, and quality standards the team will build on as it grows. You'll partner closely with Product and Design to shape the roadmap, influence priorities, and help determine what gets built

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of full-stack experience building customer-facing web applications
• Strong product instincts with an ability to translate product requirements and user feedback into thoughtful technical decisions
• Strong execution skills and a high bar for engineering quality, testing, and reliability
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces, break complex work into concrete milestones, and stay focused on the highest-impact opportunities
• Collaborative technical leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, and Design, drive sound technical decisions, and bring others along through clear reasoning and good judgment
• Experience with our tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, GCP

Compensation, It's What We Do.

At Pave, we believe compensation should be as thoughtful as the people we hire. This role is structured as a B2B contract engagement — and your total rewards package includes meaningful equity, flexible PTO, and region-specific benefits designed around your life, not just your role. Your level and compensation are determined by your experience and how you show up throughout the interview process. We're always happy to walk you through how we think about leveling — just ask.

Benefits @ Pave

At Pave, growth isn't a perk — it's the point. As you develop, your role expands, your responsibilities deepen, and your compensation reflects the impact you're making.

What we offer:

• Private Health Coverage: Comprehensive private healthcare to keep you and your wellbeing a priority — because great work starts with taking care of yourself.
• Sports & Wellness: A monthly wellness stipend to fuel your active lifestyle — whether that's a MultiSport membership or whatever keeps you moving.
• Life & Disability Protection: Life, AD&D, and permanent disability coverage so you and your family are protected when it matters most.
• Retirement Program: Monthly retirement contributions to help you build the kind of long-term financial security that lets you focus on the work in front of you.
• Time That's Actually Yours: Flexible PTO to rest, recharge, and show up as your best self — no counting days, no guilt.
• Work From Anywhere: The freedom to work from anywhere in the world for a full month each year, because life doesn't pause and neither should you.
• Room to Keep Growing: A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
• Equipment: Top-of-the-line Pave hardware waiting for you on day one — no setup anxiety, just hit the ground running.

Life @ Pave

Founded in 2019 with a clear purpose and a team that has never wavered from it, Pave has grown into a global force in compensation management — giving thousands of companies the tools to take control, build confidence, and earn credibility in every pay decision they make. And we're just getting started. Headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, with regional hubs in New York City's Flatiron District, Salt Lake City, Kraków (Poland), and the United Kingdom — wherever you're based, you'll find the same thing: people who genuinely care about the work, each other, and the customers that rely on Pave.

We run a hybrid culture that brings teams together in person on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday — and every Friday, the whole company gathers for our Team Sync: breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and yes, the occasional Kahoot. It's one of the things people notice when they join us — that we truly enjoy spending time together.

Our culture is shaped by five values we live every day:

• Be Intellectually Honest — Truth over comfort. We face reality clearly and speak directly, even when it's hard.
• Play to Win — We're not here to participate. We're here to be the #1 compensation platform in the world, and we act like it.
• Uphold the Pave Platinum Standard — We hold ourselves to the highest bar — for our customers, our data, and each other.
• One Team — We win and lose together. Titles don't drive decisions here — shared goals do.
• Hug of Jawn — Hard to define, impossible to miss. Ask your recruiter.

Our Vision: Unlock a labor market built on trust.

Our Mission: Build confidence in every compensation decision.

We build software that transforms how companies pay their people — and we believe the team behind that software deserves the same thoughtfulness. If you're ready to help shape the future of compensation alongside people who are smart, humble, and genuinely motivated by the problem we're solving, we'd love to meet you.

Still deliberating? Just apply! We're always excited to meet people who are eager to contribute.