Senior Staff Software Engineer

CheckrSan Francisco, CA
Hybrid

About The Position

Checkr is looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to facilitate the long-term design of Checkr’s core systems and to lead critical cross-organizational initiatives, including the international expansion of our platform and development of an Enterprise Architecture. In this role, you will work across the entire R&D organization to deeply understand the product’s domain models and customer needs, and work across all teams to ensure that Checkr is architecting a best-in-class, API-first product that can scale into the future.

Requirements

  • Degree in computer science or related field (Bachelor's or Master's)
  • 2+ years leading architecture projects across an organization
  • 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
  • 15+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Experience developing in Ruby, GoLang, and Python
  • Solid understanding of cloud technologies and all layers of backend stacks
  • Deep understanding of microservices design and asynchronous queueing models
  • Experience designing and maintaining real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
  • Experience mentoring engineering and product teams in domain-driven design
  • Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
  • Strong collaboration, communication, and project management skills
  • A strong sense of ownership
  • A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate

Responsibilities

  • Proactively identify the top opportunities for impact for the engineering organization
  • Own direction and lead execution of organization-wide technical efforts
  • Hands-on contribution in areas with a high degree of business risk
  • Break down very complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
  • Create documents to set standards of architectural best practices that the broader engineering organization consumes
  • Upskill the Staff Engineers in the company to systematically raise the bar for quality and scale
  • Inform buy vs build decisions, supporting broad business strategy
  • Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs, and represent your teams in technical conversations with company leadership

Benefits

  • 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
  • Lunch five times a week
  • Commuter stipend
  • Relocation stipend may be available
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