Engineering Manager, Front End

Checkr•Denver, CO

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Checkr is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Checkr Growth team. This team is hyper-focused on Checkr’s self-serve business delivering products and capabilities for Checkr’s growth funnel: Acquisition, Activation, Expansion & Retention. Leveraging your deep experience in front-end engineering, you will build, coach, and inspire the engineering team to meet company objectives and bring new products and features to market.

Requirements

4+ years as an engineering manager
8+ years as an engineer
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem-solving, and attention to detail
Experience managing quality incidents as both a technical lead and communication lead
Experience working on products at scale, and understanding the data, legal, human impact, and technical nuances of supporting highly regulated products
Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies
Deep understanding of service architecture and system design as well as lean software development principles
Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly and thoughtfully
Backbone to make tough decisions when necessary
Able to develop inclusive teams to foster growth and diversity
Ready to mentor the team to grow by providing stretch assignments and opportunities relevant to their interests
Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
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

Responsibilities

Lead a team to work on growth-focused initiatives such as increasing self-service customer conversions, improving the onboarding experience, creating engagement loops, and expanding product usage across segments.
Lead test experimentation across multiple surfaces to unlock incremental business value while improving customer experience
Drive technical vision for the team that motivates and excites the team for the next chapter
Partner closely with product management to build new features and enhance existing ones
Work with the team to reduce technical debt and sustainably scale our architecture
Build relationships with cross-functional teams and drive results with them
Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations
Hire best of the talent and continue to raise the bar for the team
Represent the team in planning and product meetings
Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality