Senior Software Backend Engineer - Market Pricing

Pave•San Francisco, CA

1d•$166,600 - $225,400•Hybrid

About The Position

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. The Market Pricing Team @ Pave focuses on empowering teams to price jobs in hours instead of months, with more data, build competitive pay ranges, and understand exactly how those decisions land across their organization. Getting this right means companies can stay competitive and retain their best talent.

Requirements

5+ years of backend engineering experience
A strong eye for performance, reliability, and robust systems design
Empathy for compensation teams and understanding of the challenges involved in pricing an employees’ pay
Strong judgment when operating in the unknown; weighing all of the tradeoffs when there is no “correct” answer
Proven ability to break ambiguous, complex problems into concrete milestones with clear success metrics and drive them to completion with minimal oversight
Influence design decisions across the team, mentor other engineers, and bring people along through clear reasoning
Thrive in fast-paced environments and ship thoughtful solutions without over-engineering

Responsibilities

Propose and implement scalable systems for our most sophisticated customers
Partner with stakeholders to take ambiguous problems from an idea to a shipped, enterprise-ready feature
Own all phases of the development lifecycle, from a conversation with a customer to post-release monitoring
Set technical direction across projects, mentor engineers, and raise the bar on how the team build