Senior Software Engineer, Trust

What you'll do

• Work closely with customers, engineers, and leaders to design, build, and launch new products.
• Take full ownership of the entire process of developing end-to-end applications - from shaping the idea to delivering the finished application.
• Embrace a customer-centric, product-first approach - partner directly with customer success, customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs and turn those into useful features.
• Keep code reliable and easy to maintain with solid testing, thoughtful reviews, and good practices.
• Run and measure product experiments, using what you learn to guide future development.
• Building scalable APIs and asynchronous event-based architecture that can reliably handle very high traffic, including integrating with third-party services to expand what our products can do.

What you bring

• BS/MS degree in either computer science or an engineering discipline.
• Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups.
• 5+ years of full stack software development experience.
• Advanced knowledge in Ruby (Rails), Javascript (React), or similar languages/frameworks.
• Comfortability working with AI tools day-to-day, and the ability to build simple AI-powered tools or workflows that boost team or org productivity.
• Experimentation mindset: autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP.
• Early-stage approach: comfort with ambiguity, balancing speed and perfection, and the confidence and curiosity to help guide product direction.
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience building scalable technical architecture that can scale to 10mm+ users (including observability tooling, container orchestration, etc).

Background in trust & safety, IDV, background check products or criminal data.

• Expertise in data analysis and processing.
• Experience building and working with scrapers and scraping technology

Pay Transparency Disclosure

We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

Pay and benefits

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA) $185,000—$218,000 USD

What We Offer

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend

• At Checkr, we believe an in office work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection.
• Our hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile.
• Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week.
• In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
• A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.