Staff Software Engineer: Platform & Scale

Checkr, Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Fertility & parental planning support

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive architecture across multi-system workflows in the Screenings & Verifications organization. You will own end-to-end product development from ideation to release, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with Design, Product, and Data to ship impactful features.

You bring 10+ years of software experience with 3+ years in leadership, strong backend skills (Ruby/Node.js) and frontend capabilities (JavaScript/React).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software development experience; 3+ years in a project leadership role.
• Deep expertise in backend development (e.g., Ruby, Node.js) with working proficiency in frontend technologies (JavaScript/React).
• Experience building scalable systems with automated testing, observability, and high performance.

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 features.
• Define and lead technical initiatives to enable growth at scale and address technical debt.

Skills

Backend development

Frontend tech (React/JS)

Testing & observability

Leadership

Ownership

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Architecture leadership

Delivery mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ruby

Node.js

JavaScript

React

Job description

Checkr is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive architecture across multi-system workflows in the Screenings & Verifications organization. You will own end-to-end product development from ideation to release, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with Design, Product, and Data to ship impactful features.

You bring 10+ years of software experience with 3+ years in leadership, strong backend skills (Ruby/Node.js) and frontend capabilities (JavaScript/React).