Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 200000 - 220000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Building at Check

At Check we make paying people simple. In doing that were not just building our own business were building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll were redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch grow and thrive. Check out the full story Tune in.

Check is far more than just API infrastructure. Were a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Our Team

Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team thats as passionate as you are!At Check youll use creative problem-solving critical thinking and grit to impact every business we build. We view problems to solve and jobs to be done as opportunities to contribute to the solution; we ignore conventional role boundaries in favor of the unique strengths and value each builder brings to our team and to our mission.

Join us if youre ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Lets simplify the complex make a real impact and create a better future for businesses of every size.

The Work

At Check youll join a team of builders who love to move fast solve problems end to end and make things happen. You wont just write code youll take ideas from zero to production and own the impact. Our stack is modern cloud-native and built to scale but we care most about speed and simplicity.

In this role you will:

Spot the right problems and solve them creatively
Ship high-quality high-impact code across the stack fast
Use AI tools and automation to multiply your velocity
Work closely with product and design then run with execution
Make smart trade-offs to keep momentum high
Simplify systems share feedback and raise the quality bar
Build trust and help grow a high-performance team culture

Our Stack:

Backend: Python/Django
Frontend: React TypeScript
Infrastructure: AWS Terraform
Database: Postgres
Workflow orchestration: Temporal
Tooling: GitLab for CI/CD

Tools for the job:

Youve led projects and rallied stakeholders around big outcomes
You thrive in fast-paced ambiguous environments
You love debugging tricky problems and finding elegant solutions
You balance speed and quality with strong product instincts
You code in Python or Go (bonus for Django React or TypeScript)
You want to shape how a high-performance team builds and ships

Travel and Office Policy:

Building Together on Common Ground. The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we embrace remote work time together in person is where we do our best work. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites events and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to attend our annual 3-day company retreat in the fall.

For our in-office and hybrid employees our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours game nights etc.

What we offer:

For full-time employees Check offers company-sponsored medical dental vision short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance coverage effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options flexible PTO and sick leave 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents flexible return-to-work 9 annual holidays a 401k retirement plan and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

The actual annual salary for this role depends on each candidates experience qualifications and work location. Most new hires are placed near the midpoint of this range to ensure fairness with our existing teams compensation.

In San Francisco NYC LA and Seattle the expected range is between $200000 and $220000.
For all other locations the expected range is between $180000 and $198000.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.

Remote work at Check requires the ability to perform all responsibilities without distraction or disruption while maintaining quality effective communication and productivity.

Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories provided they are consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

Checkparticipates inE-Verifyand will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S.Checkdoes not useE-Verifyto pre-screen applicants.

Building at CheckAt Check we make paying people simple. In doing that were not just building our own business were building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll were redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses...