Engineering Manager, Mortgage

Checkr, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 233,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Learning & development allowance

Competitive cash & equity compensation

Fertility/adoption support

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Checkr, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Mortgage Verifications team in San Francisco, CA. You will lead about 8 engineers, shaping the platform end-to-end—from APIs and integrations to AI/ML-powered verification decisions and the customer-facing experience.

You will partner with product, own delivery at scale, and drive AI adoption with guardrails. The role requires thriving in a high-stakes, regulated environment with opportunities to impact millions of mortgage applicants.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as an engineering manager with a team of engineers.
• Experience rolling out AI adoption across a team with guardrails and baselines.
• Quantitative fluency: explain metrics and baselines behind business-impact claims.
• Proven track record co-owning product direction and partnering with Product.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team.
• Drive team-level AI adoption with guardrails and baselines.
• Co-own product direction with PM, aligning problems and execution.
• Lead platform modernization while shipping features in a regulated domain.
• Manage production incidents as technical lead and communicator.
• Grow engineers' careers and plan promotions.
• Hire senior and staff engineers to grow the team.
• Report progress to product and executive stakeholders with data.

Skills

Engineering management

AI adoption

System design

Incidents management

Regulated environments

Stakeholder communication

Job description

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.

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.

About The Role

Checkr’s Mortgage Verifications team builds the systems lenders use to verify income and employment for millions of mortgage applicants a year - work that sits at the intersection of consumer data, regulated financial decisions, and ML/AI-driven automation. We're mid-flight on a major evolution of our verification products, and next-generation prediction models for verification outcomes.

As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of ~8 engineers building this platform end-to-end - from the APIs and Integrations core to the platform, to the AI/ML models that power verification decisions to the customer-facing product experience. You'll report into Mortgage engineering leadership with direct visibility to the executive leadership team, and you'll partner closely with the product team to shape what ships next. The decisions this team makes affect real people's ability to get a mortgage - the stakes and the scale are real, and so is the room to make an impact fast.

What You'll Do

• Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team as we scale our self-serve verification product through its next launch phases
• Drive team-level AI adoption - not just personal tool use, but rollout with real guardrails, baselines, and a measured effect on how the team ships
• Co-own product direction with your PM partner: shape the problem, create alignment where warranted, and don't just execute a handed-off spec
• Lead the team through platform modernization while shipping new features in a highly regulated, high-stakes domain
• Manage production incidents as both technical lead and communication lead, in a system where downtime has real business and consumer impact
• Grow your engineers' careers - including building the case for promotions and identifying where each person wants to go next
• Hire senior and staff-level engineering talent to grow the team through its next phase
• Represent the team's priorities and progress to product and executive stakeholders, with the data and methodology to back up any impact claim you make

What You Bring

• 4+ years as an engineering manager; 8+ years as an engineer
• A concrete track record of rolling out AI adoption across a team - with guardrails and a baseline you measured against, not just "I use Copilot"
• Quantitative fluency: you can explain not just the metric behind a business-impact claim you've made, but the methodology and baseline behind it
• A demonstrated pattern of co-owning product direction - shaping problems and disagreeing productively with Product - rather than taking specs and executing
• Experience managing incidents in production systems at scale, as both technical lead and communicator
• Experience working on regulated, high-stakes products where data accuracy and compliance matter (fintech, healthcare, identity, or similar) - comfort with ambiguity matters more here than process maturity from a large, established org
• Strong system design and architecture judgment; comfortable making prioritization calls with incomplete information
• A track record of growing engineers and building inclusive, high-functioning teams
• Openness to feedback and genuine curiosity - you'll be learning alongside a team that's evolving fast
• 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

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)

$233,000—$274,000 USD

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, CO; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. In-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.

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 Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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