First Advantage
Professional Services · Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
19open roles
$95kmedian advertised pay
Scaling fasthiring pace, 93 of 100
22 daysmedian time a role stays open
Overview
First Advantage (Nasdaq: FA) delivers comprehensive background check solutions and insights that enable employers and housing providers to make confident choices, reduce risk, and maintain compliance. With offices in 29 locations and a staff of 6,400+ employees, First Advantage leverages leading technology and the industry's largest global capabilities to complete background checks in 200+ countries and territories. If you're looking for employee or tenant background check solutions that enable fast and reliable decision making, we're your First Advantage.
How First Advantage hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
22 days
Ghost roles
5%
Stale roles
58%
Reposted roles
11%
First Advantage scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 5% look like ghost listings, 58% have gone stale and 11% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 22 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
Jobs
$100k – $125k per year · Equity · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · United States
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Equity · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
Incident Management
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≈ $11k – $29k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Philippines
Apex
MuleSoft
DevOps
Azure
Management
Agile
Scrum
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$110k – $140k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
C#
MS SQL
Azure Cosmos DB
Frontend
Vue.js
Mobile
MVVM
DevOps
Rest API
Azure
Git
AWS
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$55k – $70k per year · Equity · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · High School Diploma · United States
Power BI
Microsoft Excel
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$80k – $90k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp
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In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
Java
SQL
Oracle
DevOps
Rest API
SOAP
Management
Oracle ERP
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Remote (likely India) · Full-Time
SQL
Oracle
DevOps
Linux
Unix
Management
Oracle ERP
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≈ $11k – $25k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
SQL
A/B Testing
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≈ $57k – $93k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Poland
JavaScript
TypeScript
Angular
React.js
Web Components
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≈ $119k – $254k per year (Estimated) · Remote (likely India) · Full-Time · 7+ years exp
Python
Java
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
CloudFormation
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Bicep
Amazon EKS
Azure AKS
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$95k
Typical range
$30k – $175k
Open positions
14
10
Jobs
Middle
40%
Senior
40%
Staff
10%
Architect
10%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 4 | $85k | $37k – $140k |
| Senior | 4 | $113k | $90k – $150k |
| Staff | 1 | $110k | $110k |
| Architect | 1 | $175k | $175k |
Highest paying role
Vice President of Sales
$175k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at First Advantage
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
93/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
63
40 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
24 days
faster than 53% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 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.
Customer Success
14% ▼
Sales
13% ▼
Operations
11%
Enterprise Apps
10% ▼
HR
9% ▼
Backend
8% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+10 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+5 jobs in a week
Nov 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack
Oct 2026
+7 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
Added Spring Boot to stack
Oct 2026
Added Hibernate to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vue.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added MVVM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Azure Cosmos DB to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Sentinel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Defender for Cloud to stack
Oct 2026
Added Oracle ERP to stack
Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at First Advantage over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
147
Postings analysed
88
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL43%
JavaScript28%
Python23%
TypeScript22%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular8%
Selenium8%
Playwright7%
ASP.NET Core6%
Databases
MS SQL7%
Oracle7%
Amazon Redshift2%
Azure Cosmos DB2%
Cloud & platforms
Azure42%
AWS33%
Power BI17%
GitHub10%
AI & ML
LLM5%
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News
First Advantage to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences
ATLANTA, Sept. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ: FA), a global software and data company, today announced the Company's management team will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences: Citi's 2026 Global TMT
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First Advantage outlines $1.625B-$1.7B 2026 revenue target with new $100M buyback amid digital identity momentum
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First Advantage (FA) Beats Q3 Earnings Estimates
First Advantage (FA) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 4% and 2%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2024. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?
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Why First Advantage Is Buying Sterling Check For $2.2 Billion
First Advantage - a leading provider of employment background screening, identity, and verification solutions - recently announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Sterling Check, a provider of background screening and i
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
7
Countries
6
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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Headquarters
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Atlanta
United States
HQ
Corporate Headquarters
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
1 Concourse Parkway NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328
Bengaluru
India
Support & operations
IN_Bangalore_Virtual
17 open roles 56 posted in 90 days 41% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Enterprise Apps, Operations, Analytics
Mumbai
India
Regional office
IN_Mumbai_Virtual
7 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations, HR, Sales
Kraków
Poland
PL_Krakow_Office
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
Singapore
Singapore
SG_Singapore_Office
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% remote 1-10 est. staff
hires for Customer Success
Zhuhai
China
CN_Zhuhai_Office
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Analytics
Mexico City
Mexico
MX_Mexico City_Office
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations
Fishers
United States
US_Fishers IN_Office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $36k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Earlier presence
Seoul, South Korea
Sydney, Australia
Hong Kong, Hong Kong