Engineering Manager - Developer Platform

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