Senior Software Engineer

Checkr; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help drive the growth of the startup. You will take significant ownership from idea to execution and impact customers and business directly.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of full stack development experience, along with expertise in Ruby on Rails and Javascript frameworks. A strong problem-solving ability and customer-focus are essential for success in this pivotal role.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Experience at fast-paced startups.
• Desirable familiarity with scalable architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end application development.
• Collaborate with teams to launch new products.
• Build and improve APIs for third-party service integration.

Skills

Full stack development

Ruby (Rails)

Javascript (React)

Problem-solving

Customer-centric approach

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in either computer science or an engineering discipline
• Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups
• 6+ 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
• (Desirable) Experience building scalable technical architecture that can scale to 10mm+ users (including observability tooling, container orchestration, etc)
• (Desirable) Background in trust & safety, IDV, background check products or criminal data
• (Desirable) Expertise in data analysis and processing
• (Desirable) Experience building and working with scrapers and scraping technology

What the job involves

• Since launching, we’ve 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
• 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