Senior Software Backend Engineer, Market Pricing

The role

You will propose and implement scalable systems for sophisticated customers. You will partner with stakeholders to develop enterprise-ready features and own the full development lifecycle. You will also set technical direction and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• 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
• Raise the bar on how the team build

Required qualifications

• 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 judgement when operating in the unknown
• Ability to break ambiguous, complex problems into concrete milestones with clear success metrics
• Ability to drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
• Ability to influence design decisions across the team
• Ability to mentor other engineers
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible PTO
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to a month
• Lunch and dinner stipends
• Fully stocked kitchens
• Quarterly education stipend
• Robust parental leave
• Commuter stipend

About the company

Pave is building a compensation platform combining a real-time compensation dataset with AI and machine learning. Headquartered in San Francisco, it has regional hubs in New York City, Salt Lake City, Kraków, and the United Kingdom.