Partner Engineer

Check • New York, NY

6d • $154,700 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Check is rebuilding payroll infrastructure and is looking for a Partner Engineer to join their team. The Partner Engineering team is dedicated to helping partners unlock the full potential of their payroll solutions through proactive, strategic, technical guidance. This role involves writing code, building systems, and shipping features alongside Check's core engineering organization. The team works closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, engineering, and product management, to ensure partners can effectively integrate and maximize the value of Check's platform. Partner Engineers are also at the forefront of Check's company-wide AI strategy, leading the integration of AI capabilities across their product and internal tooling. The ideal candidate will have a passion for working with customers, a first-principles approach to solving open-ended problems at the intersection of software engineering and AI, and the opportunity to work with large platforms and fast-growing companies.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to effectively explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Problem-solving mindset with an entrepreneurial approach to tackling challenges
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Intellectual curiosity and adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs
• Demonstrated experience building with AI — including LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered tooling — and a strong point of view on where AI creates the most leverage in a product and engineering context
• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code
• Hands-on experience working with APIs and technical infrastructure; experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs into web applications required
• Comfort operating at the intersection of engineering and product: you can go deep in a codebase and then turn around and communicate the tradeoffs clearly to a non-technical executive
• Willing and able to attend our annual 3-day company offsite each year in the spring, and to travel occasionally as needed to support our partners

Nice To Haves

• experience in customer-facing or solutions engineering roles at a FinTech or SaaS platform preferred

Responsibilities

• Act as the bridge between sales and partners' engineering teams, ensuring smooth technical handoff.
• Write code alongside partner engineering teams to accelerate integrations, debug complex issues, and demonstrate best practices.
• Architect robust, scalable integration patterns for partners building on Check's platform.
• Provide high-level implementation plans and estimate time to market.
• Offer structured feedback to internal product and engineering teams based on partner experiences.
• Assist partners in architecting, troubleshooting, and optimizing their integrations.
• Serve as the subject matter expert and trusted advisor to partners post-integration.
• Own the post-sales technical strategy and roadmap alignment with partners.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key technical stakeholders, from engineers to C-suite executives.
• Provide proactive strategic and technical guidance to drive partner adoption and growth.
• Act as an advocate for partner needs within internal teams, influencing product development and innovation.
• Build key features that unlock value for Check's partners — you write the code, not just the spec.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues beyond standard support channels.
• Build partner-facing documentation, resources, and other artifacts to aid technical enablement.
• Lead Check's company-wide efforts to identify, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across our product and internal stack.
• Evaluate emerging AI frameworks, models, and tooling; make concrete recommendations and own the build-out of high-priority initiatives.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to define Check's AI roadmap and serve as an internal champion for responsible, high-impact AI adoption.
• Help partners leverage AI to improve their own payroll and workforce management workflows built on Check's platform.

Benefits

• Ample opportunities and encouragement to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons throughout the year.
• All Checketeers gather in the spring for our annual 3-day company retreat.
• For in-office and hybrid employees, offices are open all week.
• Meals are provided on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed