Staff Engineer, Integrations — Scale & Partner APIs

Checkr; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and development allowance

Competitive cash and equity

100% medical, dental, and vision

Up to $25K fertility/adoption support

Flexible PTO

Monthly wellness stipend

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Integrations team to shape the architecture of multi-system workflows and drive secure, scalable connections with HR tech platforms. You’ll own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and collaborate across design, product, and data teams to deliver high-impact integrations.

You’ll lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability and performance, and help Checkr scale its platform with partner-facing APIs and OAuth/data mapping work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software development experience and 3+ years experience in a project leadership role.
• Deep expertise in backend development (e.g., Ruby, Node.js) with working proficiency in frontend technologies such as JavaScript and React to support API development and integrations.
• Experience building scalable systems with automated testing, observability, and high performance (A/B testing a plus).
• A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release.

Responsibilities

• Own development of the product from ideation, design, implementation, to release.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, Data, and others to instrument and deploy new product experiments and ship impactful features.
• Define and lead technical initiatives to enable growth at scale and address technical debt, both within the team and across the organization.
• Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization.
• Spread development best practices through knowledge sharing and documentation.
• Partner with product and engineering management in quarterly and annual planning activities.
• Ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our services.

Job description

Checkr is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Integrations team to shape the architecture of multi-system workflows and drive secure, scalable connections with HR tech platforms. You’ll own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and collaborate across design, product, and data teams to deliver high-impact integrations.

You’ll lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability and performance, and help Checkr scale its platform with partner-facing APIs and OAuth/data mapping work.