Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

http://www.paces.com/

About the company

Paces builds software and services that help energy infrastructure teams find viable sites, run early-stage diligence, and move projects to “power-ready” faster. The platform focuses heavily on geospatial, permitting, zoning, environmental, and grid data to reduce manual work in development. Public company updates include an $11M Series A announcement dated July 24, 2024, and current job postings that describe total funding of $13M+. The company is part of Y Combinator.

Locations and presence

The company is centered on Brooklyn, with multiple roles described as hybrid and anchored to an office in Williamsburg. Paces also runs at least one internship as fully remote.

Palpable Score

65.5

/ 100

Paces offers genuine early-career entry points in both engineering and environmental data, with unusually clear compensation and benefits for a startup. The score stays mid-range because most open roles still sit at mid-level and above, and public proof of long-term early-career progression is limited by small sample sizes.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company is hiring a Junior Software Engineer, Data role that accepts “relevant internships” as qualifying experience, which is a real graduate-friendly bar.
Paces has at least one explicit internship track (Environmental Data Intern) aimed at current students or recent graduates, including paid hourly compensation.
The company’s wider hiring slate still leans mid-level (for example, Software Engineer, Backend requiring 3+ years and product roles labeled mid level), so early-career access is present but not broad.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.5

/ 20

The company’s postings spell out concrete deliverables and skill expectations (for example, SQL plus specific orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow for data engineering).
Paces has mixed but specific interview-process evidence in public reports, including a multi-step flow with a founder conversation, technical assessment, and panel, plus at least one report of an unusually short recruiter screen.
The company does not publish a single, official “what to expect” hiring timeline across roles, so candidates still rely on job-board descriptions and scattered interview reports.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company’s Environmental Data Intern listing explicitly promises mentorship from experienced professionals in environmental policy, permitting, and geospatial analysis.
Paces describes internal learning rituals such as lunch-and-learns and team-led “unconferences,” which can support skill growth when paired with real feedback loops.
The company’s engineering job descriptions focus on ownership and execution, but they rarely spell out onboarding mechanics like a 30-60-90 ramp plan or a consistent review cadence.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.5

/ 20

The company publishes a salary range for the Junior Software Engineer, Data role ($100K–$150K) and pairs it with equity, which is strong pay clarity for early-career engineering.
Paces lists concrete stability benefits in job postings such as 401(k) matching, health, dental and vision insurance, paid holidays, PTO, and a defined hybrid cadence.
The company’s internship compensation is clearly paid ($16/hour), but the internship is also labeled with multiple job-type tags (temporary, part-time, contract, internship), which can feel less stable than a clean internship-to-grad pipeline.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

10.5

/ 20

The company has a small set of public employee reviews with very positive ratings and repeated “recommend” signals, but the sample size is too small to treat as durable outcome proof.
Paces has growth signals that typically expand opportunity, including a publicly announced Series A and a cluster of newly reposted roles across engineering and product.
The company’s LinkedIn footprint suggests a small team, but public profiles do not give enough aggregated evidence of junior promotions, 12–24 month retention, or internal mobility patterns.

Useful links & resources

Paces careers hub Software Engineer, Data (Junior)Environmental Data Intern