Engineering Manager, Verifications

United States Digital Space LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 197,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-paced environment

Learning allowance

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Fertility/adoption reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Denver hub office

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager for Verifications to lead a growing team responsible for employment, education, drug and health verifications, and right‑to‑work products, in a highly regulated environment.

You’ll drive reliability, scale data quality and automation, and collaborate with Product and Compliance to translate requirements into engineering priorities, while fostering talent and ensuring high‑quality, auditable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team in a complex, integration-heavy environment.
• Strong background in service architecture, distributed systems, and system design.
• Proven ability to manage multi-vendor integrations and external dependencies.
• Track record of improving operational metrics and reliability in production.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and responsible adoption.
• Experience in regulated industries with data accuracy and compliance requirements.
• Excellent incident management and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Verifications engineering team and set technical direction.
• Own reliability and quality of broad fulfillment integrations.
• Collaborate with Product to define and execute roadmaps across verification products.
• Drive architectural decisions to improve coverage and automation.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted development while upholding quality standards.
• Represent Verifications in cross-functional planning with Product, Compliance, and Leadership.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Third-party integrations

AI-assisted development

Incident management

Regulated data

Stakeholder communication

Job description

**About the company**the company is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on the company 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. the company is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the role

The Verifications team is responsible for one of the company's most expansive product portfolios, an ever growing suite of screening products empowering informed decisions across our enterprise customers. Employment and education verifications, drug and occupational health screenings, reference checks, and right-to-work – are several of the products this team improves to drive growth and customer retention. Our customers place candidates into widely different roles, industries, and regulatory environments, each with distinct compliance and screening requirements, necessitating rapid product iteration across multiple fronts concurrently.

As Engineering Manager for Verifications, you'll own a wide surface area with meaningful room to make it better — improving accuracy and turnaround time, reducing manual touchpoints, and scaling how the team delivers across a complex mix of fulfillment integrations and compliance requirements. This role requires a focus on both immediate system scalability and long-term delivery process refinement. This includes near‑term work on scaling data quality and automation systems to handle rapid growth, alongside strategic, longer‑horizon investments in expanding coverage and building a faster, more consistent verification experience for our rapidly scaling candidate and customer base.

What you’ll do

• Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team — setting technical direction, driving performance and career development conversations, and building a hiring pipeline that strengthens the team over time

• Own the reliability and quality of a broad portfolio of fulfillment integrations — partnering closely with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction, improve turnaround times, and minimize candidate and customer impact when issues arise

• Partner with Product to define and execute the roadmap across employment, education, drug and health, and compliance products — translating customer and regulatory requirements into clear engineering priorities

• Drive technical strategy for scaling a complex, integration‑heavy system — making deliberate architecture decisions that improve coverage, reduce manual exceptions, and build toward a more automated and consistent verification experience

• Lead the team's adoption of AI‑assisted development practices — helping engineers move faster while maintaining the quality and accuracy standards that a regulated, data‑sensitive product requires

• Represent Verifications in cross‑functional planning — serving as the engineering voice on team capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing with Product, Compliance, and Engineering leadership

What you bring

• 4+ years as an engineering manager, with a track record of building and developing high‑performing teams

• 8+ years as a software engineer, with strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design

• Experience managing complex third‑party integration environments — you’re comfortable owning reliability across systems you don’t fully control, and know how to structure teams and processes around that reality

• A track record of improving operational metrics — reducing incident frequency, improving detection time, or shipping reliability improvements in high‑stakes production environments

• Familiarity with AI‑assisted development and agentic coding tools — you understand how to help your team adopt these responsibly and can reason about the tradeoffs between velocity and quality they introduce

• Experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non‑negotiable

• Strong incident management skills — you can lead both the technical response and the stakeholder communication when things go wrong

• Ability to make prioritization decisions quickly, with a clear framework for balancing short‑term reliability work against longer‑term product investments

• Strong communication skills across technical and non‑technical stakeholders — Product, Operations, Compliance, and senior leadership

• A genuine investment in developing people — through career conversations, stretch assignments, and creating conditions for engineers to grow

• Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn

• 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, seeour website**.*

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

$233,000—$274,000 USD

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO)

$197,000—$232,000 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 the company, 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 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 the company hub location.*

Equal Employment Opportunities at the company

*the company 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. the company believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with lo*