Engineering Manager - Developer Platform
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 58% 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.
Research & Development
The R&D organization encompasses engineering, product, design, data science, and security. We’re a high performing team that moves between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days. Everyone on the team has high agency to design, experiment, and build great software in partnership with our pre-sales and post-sales teams, and our clients.
We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale. Our stack is React, TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, and BigQuery hosted on GCP.
The Developer Platform Team
The Developer Platform team sits at the epicenter of Pave Engineering. The team is responsible for Pave’s infrastructure, developer tooling, and development workflows, ensuring product engineers can confidently ship enterprise-quality software with high velocity. In this role, you will lead a team of experienced engineers focused on creating a best-in-class development experience and designing & managing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure to support the uptime and performance requirements of Pave’s largest, most sophisticated customers.
What You'll Be Doing
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of high-performing backend and infrastructure engineers
- Drive strategic engineering initiatives to improve the scalability, performance, and reliability of the Pave application
- Manage critical vendor relationships, like GCP and Datadog
- Lead Pave’s business continuity and disaster recovery strategy
- Define Engineering best practices and drive adoption across the organization
What You'll Bring
- 7+ years of industry experience with a strong emphasis on cloud infrastructure and developer tooling, including 2+ years management experience
- Experience managing highly available infrastructure; familiarity with GCP preferred but not mandatory
- High developer empathy. Passionate about improving developer tooling and processes
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams through planning and execution of large technical projects that span multiple quarters
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to provide clear direction, set expectations, and provide actionable feedback
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and tackle problems with high agency and resilience. Well-suited to lead in a startup environment
- Commitment to fostering an inclusive team culture that empowers team members from all backgrounds
Compensation, It's What We Do.
Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. This salary range may include multiple levels.
Pave's salary range for this position
$195,500 - $264,500 USD
Life @ Pave
Since being founded in 2019 Pave has grown globally. We’re based across our HQ in San Francisco’s FiDi neighborhood, Flatiron in NYC and regional hubs in Salt Lake City and the United Kingdom. We embrace a high-energy, collaborative in-person work environment at these locations, operating on a hybrid schedule that brings teams together in-office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays.
Benefits
At Pave roles, responsibilities, and compensation grow as you do, reflecting our commitment to your professional development.
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs
- Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for a month
- Lunch & dinner stipends as well as fully stocked kitchens to fuel you
- Quarterly education stipend to continuously grow
- Robust parental leave to bond with your new family
- A commuter stipend to help you collaborate in person
Vision
Our vision is to unlock a labor market built on trust.
Mission
Our team's mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision.
Are you ready to help our clients make smarter, more effective compensation decisions?
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