Full-Time
Senior Software Engineer
Developer Platform
Posted on 10/3/2025
Pave
1-10 employees
Real-time compensation management for HR
Compensation Overview
$195.5k - $264.5k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
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- 5+ 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.
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture (GCP or similar), security, and reliability best practices.
- Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with experience scaling production systems.
- 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 processes.
- You’ll partner closely with engineers across product and data to remove friction, boost developer velocity, and strengthen reliability.
- The Developer Platform team sits at the heart of Pave Engineering. We own the developer experience and infrastructure that enable every team to ship enterprise-grade software quickly and confidently.
- Nice to Have: Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or internal developer platforms in enterprise SaaS environments.
Pave provides compensation management solutions in the HR technology market. Its tools help companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee pay in real time. Core features include a suite of compensation tools that connect with existing systems like HRIS, ATS, and Cap Table software, allowing real-time data access and reducing manual data entry and spreadsheet use. The subscription-based platform is designed for a range of customers—from startups to large enterprises, especially VC-backed firms—who want to base pay decisions on up-to-date data. By offering real-time analytics and integrated workflows, Pave aims to simplify compensation analysis, planning, and communication, helping HR teams set fair, competitive salaries and improve employee retention.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$486.1M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2019
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- UKG partnership enables automated workflows reducing manual spreadsheet work for compensation teams.
- Free tier for companies with 1-200 employees drives adoption and expands total addressable market.
- Visual offer letters and total rewards statements improve candidate conversion and employee retention.
What critics are saying
- California pay transparency law commoditizes benchmarking data as public salary disclosures flood market.
- Gusto and Deel embed native compensation benchmarking, capturing SMB customers preferring unified platforms.
- OpenAI's advanced job-matching AI replicates benchmarking capabilities at negligible cost within ChatGPT Enterprise.
What makes Pave unique
- PaveOS integrates HCM, EMS, and ATS platforms for real-time compensation benchmarking and merit cycle management.
- Largest real-time compensation dataset from 8,700+ companies with AI-powered job matching and predictive analytics.
- Serves 5,000+ customers managing 550,000 employee records with seamless integrations across HR tech stack.
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Benefits
Competitive salary
Equity
Medical, dental & vision coverage
Commuter benefits
Catered lunch
Unlimited PTO policy
Company News
Automated workflows for workforce management and real-time compensation data insightsSAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pave , the leading real-time compensation data platform, today introduced a new technology partnership with UKG , a leading global provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions for all people. With more than 350 technology and services partners, UKG provides one of the largest and most collaborative partner ecosystems in the HCM industry, focused on creating better employee experiences and improving business outcomes.With this collaboration, organizations that use both Pave and UKG Pro can seamlessly leverage valuable organizational details like team and employee-level data from UKG directly into the Pave platform. With this critical information easily accessible in Pave, compensation teams can save time and avoid manual work like compiling data exports, managing spreadsheets, and reconciling compensation data. With accurate, up-to-date data accessible in Pave, teams can run more efficient merit cycles, and easily visualize compensation updates for every employee.UKG & Pave are partnering to make it easier to take action on real-time data & streamline compensation management. Post this"With the labor market shifting rapidly, it's more important than ever for compensation leaders to make decisions based on the most current market data," said Nicklaus Salzman, head of partnerships at Pave. "UKG and Pave are making it easier to take action on real-time data
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