Senior Frontend Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 183000 - 215000
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014 Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart and Airtable.
Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
About the Role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer for Growth at Checkr you will play a crucial role in advancing Checkrs self-serve business delivering products and capabilities for Checkrs growth funnel: Acquisition Activation Expansion & Retention. Leveraging your deep experience you will build innovate and inspire the team to bring a customer-first mindset to the self-serve experience and make it delightful for customers.
What youll do:
- Develop new customer experience capabilities and product offerings from design through release
- Find the balance between speed to market and long-term growth by designing for the horizon and building for today
- Bring an iterative mindset to experiment learn and iterate to provide the best experience for the customers
- Partner with Product to define appropriately sized initiatives to construct a roadmap that meets business needs quarter over quarter
- Preserve customer goodwill by ensuring system availability by participating in on-call rotation addressing support tickets and taking action on preventative measures to improve reliability
- Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization
- Play an active role in the continuous improvement of the engineering organization through lunch table discussions team showcases and reviews with senior leadership
What you bring:
- 5 years of professional experience building web applications
- Strong React skills deep understanding of hooks context component patterns and performance optimization
- TypeScript proficiency in a production environment
- Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest Vitest React Testing Library Cypress)
- Experience running A/B experiments and using data to inform product decisions
- Ability to write clean maintainable well-tested code
- Excellent collaboration skills comfortable working directly with Product Managers and Designers
- Strong communication skills can articulate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have:
- Experience with experimentation platforms (Amplitude Optimizely LaunchDarkly Split)
- Experience with state management patterns (Redux React Query Context)
- Familiarity with CSS-in-JS (Styled Components)
- Experience with feature flag systems
- E2E testing experience (Cypress)
What youll get:
- 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
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Pay Transparency Disclosure
One of Checkrs core values is Transparency. To live by that value weve 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.
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco CA)
$183000 - $215000 USD
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver CO)
$155000 - $182000 USD
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. Starting January 2026 hub-based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per -office perks are provided such as lunch four 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.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local state and/or federal laws including the San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance.
*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g. or ).
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
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