About the company
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 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, and Anthropic.
About the Role
Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment and income information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more. We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents, with a better product and intense customer focus. Within Checkr, Truework operates independently, allowing rapid iteration while also being able to leverage the strengths and assets from our core business. Think of it like joining a startup within a startup!
Responsibilities
- Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal/high-level oversight and a high level of ownership.
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features.
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features.
- Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP.
- Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables.
- Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach.
- Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting Truework’s significant scale.
- Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent education/training).
- Proficiency in Python and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks).
- Experience developing RESTful APIs.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release.
- A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders.
- An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun.
Conditions
- Pay Transparency Disclosure: Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA) $185,000 — $218,000 USD.
- What We Offer: A fast-paced and collaborative environment, learning and development allowance, competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement, 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage, up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services, flexible PTO policy, monthly wellness stipend.
- At Checkr, we believe an in office 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 week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.