Senior Software Engineer - Payroll Infrastructure (Remote)

check-technologies; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid or in-office options

In-office meals Tue/Thu

Annual company retreat

Team events and hackathons

Fully distributed team across the US

Job summary

check-technologiesis seeking a senior engineer to own payroll infrastructure modernization, spanning money movement, tax calculations, and compliance workflows. You will shape end-to-end solutions that scale for thousands of businesses and their employees, collaborating with partners and customers across the product.

Remote-friendly, flexible in-office options across the US. You will work with Python/Django, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, and GitHub, delivering

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building complex systems or working in regulated industries.
• Ability to drive cross-functional projects autonomously with measurable business impact.
• Comfort working with multiple internal stakeholders and end customers in parallel.
• Track record of fast, high-quality decision making grounded in prior experience.
• Curiosity and tenacity for debugging distributed systems.
• Willingness to learn the current stack: Python/Django, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle work from problem framing through implementation.
• Build features for regulated infrastructure for partner businesses and their end customers.
• Raise the team's quality bar through code reviews and process improvements.
• Spot patterns, deepen domain knowledge, and challenge the status quo when simpler paths exist.
• Make and document clear, well-reasoned technical decisions.
• Strengthen the team by giving candid feedback and collaborating transparently.

Skills

Senior-scale engineering

Autonomous project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic decision making

Distributed systems debugging

Learning new stack

Tools

Python/Django

React

TypeScript

AWS

Terraform

Postgres

Temporal

GitHub

Job description

check-technologiesis seeking a senior engineer to own payroll infrastructure modernization, spanning money movement, tax calculations, and compliance workflows. You will shape end-to-end solutions that scale for thousands of businesses and their employees, collaborating with partners and customers across the product.

Remote-friendly, flexible in-office options across the US. You will work with Python/Django, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, and GitHub, delivering