Software Engineer

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 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.

We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high-impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. You will work in a collection of small services built on Ruby and Javascript, with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queues for asynchronous tasks. Checkr was founded by engineers for engineers; we want to create the best environment for developers to build, learn, and love their work.

• Own the product development of features from design and 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

• 3+ years of software development experience

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

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

• Passionate about XP practices, Domain Driven Design, and Continuous Delivery

• Experience developing RESTful APIs

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

• 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

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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.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)

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