Software Engineer

About Checkr
Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company .

We're seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our Candidates team. This team plays a crucial role in our mission by developing and maintaining the systems that manage the candidate application flow and related processes.

As a Software Engineer on the Candidates team, you'll work on high-impact projects that directly contribute to the core functionality of Checkr's background check services. You'll be instrumental in improving our candidate application systems, enhancing data processing capabilities, and ensuring a smooth and efficient experience for candidates going through the background check process.

What you’ll do:

• Own the product development of features from design, implementation, to release


• Partner with product, design and other stakeholders in designing new features


• Collaborate with other engineers in architecting and implementing new features


• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products


• Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of transactions a day


• Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team


• Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features


• Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP


• Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables


• Develop new end to end web applications


• Instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven mindset

What you bring:

• 3+ years of full stack software development experience


• Proficiency in Javascript, React and Ruby (or similar languages/frameworks)


• Proficiency with test frameworks and automation (e.g. Cypress)


• Experience developing RESTful APIs


• Bonus points for experience with in-house component-based design systems


• Some good product sense - not every UI flow will have a mockup ready for you :)


• Strong documentation skills


• A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release


• A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders


• An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun

What you’ll get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment


• Learning and development allowance


• Competitive 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, home office stipend

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings . 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 .

The base salary range for this role is $140,943 to $165,815 in San Francisco, CA. Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance .