Tech Lead Screenings & Verifications team

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr 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 Amazon and Anthropic.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds disrupting an industry and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the team/role

The Screenings Platform team at Checkr builds and maintains common tooling and features used by all of Checkrs screening teams in service of enabling them to focus on the domain complexity uniquely within their space. By building high quality platform-first features that other screening teams can easily tap into the Screening Platform team serves as an accelerant to other Checkr teams roadmaps while improving the maintainability and cohesion of Checkrs wide catalogue of screening products.

As a Software Engineer Tech Lead on the Screenings Platform team youll drive the technical architecture of complex multi-system workflows. Youll set the technical bar for how Checkrs screening products interact with our user data collection systems how screening products should function and how screening products interact with one another.

What youll do

• Own development of the product from ideation design implementation to release
• Bring a customer-centric product-first mindset to the table - 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

What you bring

• Fluent english
• Availability to work on a hybrid schedule (3 days per week) in Santiago (Edificio Costanera).
• Bachelors 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 or similar) 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
• A proven ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong communication project management and a commitment to mentoring engineers
• 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 see our website.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago Chile)

$66.496.000 - $78.230.000 CLP

What We Offer

• A collaborative and fast-moving environment
• Be part of an international company based in the United States
• $3000 USD per year learning and development reimbursement allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
• 100% medical dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off

At Checkr we believe a hybrid 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 -office perks are provided such as lunch five times a week a commuter stipend and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech non-tech and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds qualities and cultures enriches the workplace.

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkrs commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local state and/or federal laws including theSan Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance.

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Staff IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1