Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager - Developer Platform

At Pave, our vision is simple - unlock a labor market built on trust.

How are we going to get there? By building a compensation platform powered by the largest real-time compensation dataset on earth, we give you confidence in every compensation decision.

We partner with our customers to help them build and retain world-class teams through planning, communicating and benchmarking their team’s compensation in real time. And you don’t have to just hear it from us — you can hear it from our customers: Affirm, Airtable, Ancestry, Clio, Credit Karma, Dropbox, Hover, Hubspot, Grammarly, Ramp, Workato and (8,500+) more!

We're growing fast, building an incredible team and product, and having plenty of fun as we do it. We have offices in San Francisco and New York City, and are also expanding to Salt Lake City and welcoming remote team members.

If playing to win, building with intellectual honesty and focusing on the Pave platinum standard sounds like fun - we highly encourage you to reach out. We’d love to partner on our journey to change the world of compensation!

The Developer Platform Team @ Pave

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

A final note — we highly encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t feel entirely qualified, or entirely sure. You never know!

(This role is eligible for sponsorship)

Compensation, It's What We Do.

This salary range may include multiple levels. 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. 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, commuter benefits, catered lunch, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits.

Pave's salary range for this position is $195,500 - $264,500 USD.

Understand our DNA

At Pave, we embrace a relentless pursuit of excellence - we're committed to being in the top tier of our industry in everything we deliver. If you're seeking standard hours and conventional challenges, this might not align with your goals. If you're eager to push boundaries and elevate your potential beyond what you thought possible, we welcome your application.