The Data Platform Team @ Pave

The Data Platform team owns the data infrastructure that makes Pave work, connecting Pave's platform to the HRIS, EMS, ATS, and partner systems that power our customers' compensation workflows. Without reliable, high-quality integrations, none of Pave's products can deliver their full value. This is a high-leverage role at the core of Pave's platform strategy. This is also a rare opportunity to join as a founding engineer on the team - meaning you won't just be executing on a defined roadmap, but actively shaping how the platform is architected, what gets prioritized, and what engineering culture looks like from day one. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will set the technical direction for how Pave builds, scales, and operates its integrations infrastructure. You'll have a direct line from your architectural decisions to product capabilities and customer outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Assess the existing integrations infrastructure and drive high-impact architectural changes that improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
• Set the technical direction for how Pave builds and operates its connector and pipeline platform at scale
• Design and build new partner integrations and establish patterns that make future integrations faster to deliver
• Own data quality end-to-end, building validation, anomaly detection, and confidence signals that ensure customer data is accurate and up to date
• Build and scale the normalization layer that transforms messy, inconsistent data from thousands of customers into Pave's canonical data model
• Evaluate and apply AI to data normalization challenges, including automated field mapping, entity resolution, and data quality detection to improve data quality and reduce the manual effort of onboarding new customers
• Build and improve observability tooling: monitoring, alerting, and debugging infrastructure that gives the team and customers confidence in pipeline health
• Partner with product, go-to-market, and engineering leadership to shape the integrations roadmap and surface technical tradeoffs and investment needs
• Mentor and uplevel the engineers around you, creating leverage through coaching and the standards you set

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software, with significant depth in integrations, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to assess an existing system, identify structural weaknesses, and deliver architectural improvements that have lasting impact
• Deep understanding of integration patterns, API design, and the operational challenges of third-party data dependencies at enterprise scale
• A track record of working across team boundaries and influencing technical direction without direct authority
• Strong judgment in prioritization - able to sequence a large surface area of work and create as much value through what you simplify or kill as through what you ship
• Execution oriented - equally comfortable defining the architecture and rolling up your sleeves to drive implementation

Compensation, It's What We Do.

At Pave, we believe compensation should be as thoughtful as the people we hire. This role is structured as a B2B contract engagement — and your total rewards package includes meaningful equity, flexible PTO, and region-specific benefits designed around your life, not just your role. Your level and compensation are determined by your experience and how you show up throughout the interview process. We're always happy to walk you through how we think about leveling — just ask.

Benefits @ Pave

At Pave, growth isn't a perk — it's the point. As you develop, your role expands, your responsibilities deepen, and your compensation reflects the impact you're making.

We offer a monthly stipend to cover:

• Private Health Coverage: Comprehensive private healthcare to keep you and your wellbeing a priority — because great work starts with taking care of yourself.
• Sports & Wellness: A monthly wellness stipend to fuel your active lifestyle — whether that's a MultiSport membership or whatever keeps you moving.
• Life & Disability Protection: Life, AD&D, and permanent disability coverage so you and your family are protected when it matters most.
• Room to Keep Growing: A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
• Retirement Program: Monthly retirement contributions to help you build the kind of long-term financial security that lets you focus on the work in front of you.

What comes with working at Pave:

• Time That's Actually Yours: Flexible PTO to rest, recharge, and show up as your best self — no counting days, no guilt.
• Work From Anywhere: The freedom to work from anywhere in the world for a full month each year, because life doesn't pause and neither should you.
• Equipment: Top-of-the-line Pave hardware waiting for you on day one — no setup anxiety, just hit the ground running.