Senior Software Engineer

About Checkr

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.

A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the Role

As a Sr Software Engineer at Checkr, you will play a crucial role in advancing our product on our mission to build the data platform of the future. Throughout the product development lifecycle, you will collaborate with other engineers and product counterparts to design and deliver new platform capabilities and key product initiatives. Your passion for technical excellence will drive progress in modernizing our tech stack, simplifying system architecture, and automating manual workflows to ensure the scalability and efficiency of our platform.

What you'll do:

• Develop new platform capabilities and product offerings, from design through launch.
• Balance speed to market with long-term growth, designing with foresight and building for the present.
• Collaborate with the Product department to define appropriately sized initiatives and shape a roadmap that meets business needs quarter over quarter.
• Preserve customer goodwill by ensuring system availability, participating in on-call rotations, addressing support requests, and taking preventive measures to improve reliability.
• Provide guidance to junior engineers on the team and across the organization.
• Play an active role in the continuous improvement of the engineering organization through lunch discussions, team presentations, and reviews with senior leadership.

What you bring:

• Advanced English proficiency (non-negotiable requirement). To apply, please attach your CV in English.
• 5+ years of backend software development experience with strong proficiency in Ruby (preferred), Golang, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals, such as relational and non-relational databases, data structures, algorithms, and REST APIs.
• Proficiency in React.
• Experience in domain modeling, object design, and system architecture.
• Proven experience writing clear, tested, and concise code.
• Competence in setting expectations and making informed decisions through project estimates based on available information.
• Ability to draft and review technical proposals, providing constructive feedback and articulating trade-offs.
• Strong sense of accountability across all aspects of the development lifecycle, including incident response and ownership of product robustness.
• Desire to collaborate and share knowledge with peers, both within the team and across the organization.
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago, Chile)

$49.980.000—$58.800.000 CLP

What We Offer

• A collaborative and fast-moving environment
• Be part of an international company based in the United States
• $3,000 USD per year learning and development reimbursement allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.   

Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the  San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., [email protected] or [email protected]).