# Senior Software Backend Engineer, Market Pricing

**Company**: Pave
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $166,600 - $225,400
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

The Market Pricing Team at Pave empowers 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.

As a Senior Software Backend Engineer, Market Pricing, you will:

- 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 builds

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- 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 employee's pay

- Strong judgement 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

- Ability to influence design decisions across the team, mentor other engineers, and bring people along through clear reasoning

- Thriving in fast-paced environments and shipping thoughtful solutions without over-engineering

In terms of compensation, this role is structured as a B2B contract engagement, with a targeted cash compensation range of $166,600 - $225,400.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family

- Flexible PTO and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world for up to a month

- Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens

- A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you

- Robust parental leave

- A commuter stipend to support in-person collaboration

## Skills

### Required
- backend engineering
- scalable systems
- performance optimization
- robust systems design
- machine learning
- AI

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