Senior Software Engineer, Trust

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job a new place to live a car ride childcare even a date. Customers include Uber Pennymac Airbnb Doordash and Anthropic.

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 team/role

Checkr Trust is building safer communities by providing our customers with risk signals about its users. Every year our team provides insights on tens of millions of users across multiple verticals: online dating car rental short-term rentals and many more. We acquire analyze and deliver insights in smart scalable ways that help organizations identify and mitigate risk.

Trust is part of the Checkr start-up lab: we operate with the speed of a small startup while enjoying the leverage and resources of a known technology brand.

Since launching weve seen significant growth and we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in the continued growth of our startup. As part of our small team you will be empowered to take significant end-to-end ownership - from idea to execution to real customer and business impact.

What youll 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.
• Build and improve APIs including integrating with third-party services to expand what our products can do.
• 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.

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.
• 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

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 -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.

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