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How Checkr hires

Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
36 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%

Checkr scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 36 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 10

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Overview

Checkr is a San Francisco technology company that runs background checks and identity, income and employment verification through an AI-driven platform used for hiring, mortgage lending, tenant screening, insurance and trust decisions. Founded in 2014, it serves more than 140,000 customers including Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, Airbnb and Coinbase, reports over $500 million in revenue after a Series E at a $5 billion valuation, and has expanded into mortgage verification by acquiring Truework and Truv. It hires software and machine learning engineers, engineering managers, product designers, enterprise account executives, customer success and support staff, marketers and lawyers.

News

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News Pulse 2.0 2 months ago
Checkr Acquires Truv To Expand Across $45 Billion Verification Market And Reach 96% Of U.S. Workforce
Checkr has acquired Truv, a consumer-permissioned income, employment and asset verification platform, expanding Checkr's presence in mortgage verification while marking its entry into government benefits eligibility verification. Financial terms of the tr
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News Pulse 2.0 2 months ago
Checkr Acquires Truv To Expand Across $45 Billion Verification Market And Reach 96% Of U.S. Workforce
Checkr has acquired Truv, a consumer-permissioned income, employment and asset verification platform, expanding Checkr's presence in mortgage verification while marking its entry into government benefits eligibility verification. Financial terms of the tr
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News Business Insider 8 months ago
An identity verification AI startup is having all employees try vibe coding
A San Francisco AI startup is giving out stipends and dedicating project days for non-tech staff to vibe code apps that help with their workflow.
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News 404 Media 11 months ago
OnlyFans Will Start Checking Criminal Records. Creators Say That's a Terrible Idea
OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to "prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans."
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News 404 Media 11 months ago
OnlyFans Will Start Checking Criminal Records. Creators Say That's a Terrible Idea
OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair announced on LinkedIn that the platform partnered with Checkr to "prevent people who have a criminal conviction which may impact on our community's safety from signing up as a Creator on OnlyFans."
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
Checkr Triples Revenue as Background-Check Firm Courts Large Enterprise Clients
(Bloomberg) -- Checkr Group Inc., the background-check vendor that got its start screening couriers and rideshare drivers, has boosted revenue by increasing its customer base to include more large enterprises.Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage, Cities F
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News AOL.com 2 years ago
Background-screening firm Checkr cuts 32% of workforce, source says - AOL
Background-screening platform Checkr has cut 382 jobs, or 32% of its workforce, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, the latest company in the tech industry to resort to layoffs to reduce costs in an uncertain economy. The tech industry ha
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News AOL.com 2 years ago
Background-screening firm Checkr cuts 32% of workforce, source says - AOL
Background-screening platform Checkr has cut 382 jobs, or 32% of its workforce, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, the latest company in the tech industry to resort to layoffs to reduce costs in an uncertain economy. The tech industry ha
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Checkr over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
59
Postings analysed
105
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python15%
JavaScript12%
SQL11%
Ruby10%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js7%
Databases
Snowflake10%
Redis1%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic99%
Spark7%
AWS6%
Apache Kafka4%
AI & ML
Claude9%
LLM8%
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Full Checkr tech stack 59 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$196k
Typical range
$50k – $360k
Open positions
41
36 Jobs
Junior 2.8%
Middle 8.3%
Senior 50%
Staff 22.2%
Architect 16.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $91k $91k
Middle 3 $153k $80k – $187k
Senior 18 $209k $50k – $355k
Staff 8 $215k $186k – $360k
Architect 6 $249k $156k – $296k
Highest paying role Corporate Development Deal Lead $360k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Checkr By role, level and city, against the market · 41 jobs with pay

People

Daniel Yanisse
Executive Officer, Director
Jonathan Perichon
Executive Officer, Director
Naeem Ishaq
Executive Officer
Jennifer Yeh
Executive Officer
Todd Freedman
Executive Officer
Ali Rowghani
Director
Richard Wong
Director
Marcus Ryu
Director
Ingrid Lestiyo
Director
Rich Wong
Director
Michele O'Connor
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
42
14 opened / 20 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
36 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Management
14% ▼
Sales
13% ▼
Design
10% ▼
Backend
9% ▼
Finance
8% ▼
AI/ML
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Dallas Oct 2026
New location: Chicago Oct 2026
Added GDPR to stack Oct 2026
Added Asana to stack Oct 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack Oct 2026
Added Confluence to stack Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Sep 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added AWS Lambda to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Zapier to stack Sep 2026
Added UiPath to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
6
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco
32 open roles 56 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $228k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Marketing, Sales
seen since May 2025 careers board, job postings
Denver United States
Regional office
Denver
22 open roles 30 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Backend, Product
seen since May 2025 careers board, job postings
Nashville United States
Regional office
Nashville
9 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff $118k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Finance, Customer Success
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Atlanta United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $50k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026
Chicago United States
Sales office
Remote, United States
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $50k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Dallas United States
Regional office
Dallas
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $50k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026 careers board
Santiago Chile
Regional office
Santiago
50-200 est. staff
seen since Mar 2026 careers board
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Regional office
Brazil
careers board

Jobs

$150k – $176k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Denver
Anthropic
DevOps
Rest API
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$133k – $156k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 4+ years exp • Denver
Anthropic
DevOps
Rest API
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$207k – $244k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Anthropic
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$161k – $189k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Anthropic
Machine Learning
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$185k – $218k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Anthropic
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
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$169k – $199k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Denver • San Francisco
Anthropic
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$207k – $244k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Denver • San Francisco
Python
Ruby
pySpark
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
Copilot
Claude
Spark
MLFlow
dbt
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Amazon SageMaker
OCR
Structured Outputs
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
CI/CD
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$185k – $218k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Denver • San Francisco
Python
SQL
pySpark
Databases
Snowflake
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Anthropic
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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$159k – $187k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 4+ years exp • Denver • San Francisco
Claude
AI Agents
Anthropic
Agentic Workflows
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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$167k – $196k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • San Francisco • Denver
Anthropic
Design
Figma
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$128k – $150k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Anthropic
Design
Figma
Adobe After Effects
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$224k – $264k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Denver • San Francisco
JavaScript
Ruby
Node JS
Anthropic
Frontend
React.js
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Financials

Total raised
$49M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $40M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2014 $9M Details