Senior Software Engineer

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 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.