Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Company Name: checkr

**Job Description**:
Job Opportunity: Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Checkr

About the Role:
Checkr is looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Monetization group. This group focuses on building systems that enable Checkr to generate revenue from products and services delivered to customers. You will work on building and improving the platform to support the automated monetization process for all Checkr products.

As we process millions of records each year, the engineering challenges we face - compliance, data quality, speed, and reliability - are challenges we tackle at a large scale. We also face deep product challenges from a highly fragmented and decentralized data ecosystem, which means that every engineering choice we make is an opportunity to reduce bias in the hiring process.

You will work on a collection of small services built in Ruby and Javascript, with SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queues for asynchronous tasks. Checkr was founded by engineers for engineers; we want to create the best environment for developers to build, learn, and love their work.

We are looking for team members who are highly collaborative (we prefer pair programming), deeply care about our company's mission (to improve equity in the criminal justice system), and are willing to work with a diverse team (42% of engineers across the background check program identify as women).

Responsibilities:

- Own the end-to-end product development process, from ideation, design, implementation, to release
- Collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders in designing new features
- Collaborate with other engineers in architecture and implementation of new features
- Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products
- Deliver high-performance, reliable, scalable, and secure code
- Manage priorities, deadlines, and outcomes for each project
- Demonstrate expertise in at least one or two areas where you can drive technology (microservices, front-end, API design, TDD, infrastructure, open-source tools)

What You Bring:

- 5+ years of software development experience working with languages such as Ruby, Python, or GoLang and experience with front-end JavaScript libraries like React
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals such as relational databases, data structures and algorithms, Object Relational Mapping, etc.
- Experience writing high-performance, reliable, scalable, and secure code, and experience with microservices, queue architectures, and APIs
- Experience leading the adoption of best practices for the whole team to improve code quality and velocity
- Strong sense of ownership and responsibility and experience in mentoring junior engineers
- Great collaboration, communication, innovation, and project management skills
- Advanced English communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in building high-performance, low-latency systems
- Experience in conducting load testing and writing effective unit and integration tests

What We Offer:

- Work with the best
- Be part of an international company based in the United States
- Competitive compensation and opportunities for professional and personal growth
- 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Additional 5 days of vacation benefits and flexibility to take time off
- Learning and development reimbursement program
- Work from home reimbursement

Equal Employment Opportunity at Checkr:
Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of our technical, non-technical, and leadership positions. Checkr believes that collecting and celebrating unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records. Checkr's commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals despite having criminal histories, in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.