About the Role
Truework, a Checkr company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and maintain a platform used by top mortgage lenders. This role offers significant autonomy and requires a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset, with opportunities for rapid iteration and leveraging core business strengths.
Responsibilities
- Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal/high-level oversight and a high level of ownership
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features
- Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
- Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
- Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
- Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting Truework’s significant scale
- Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent education/training)
- Proficiency in Python and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks)
- Experience developing RESTful APIs
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
- A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders
- An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun
Skills
- Python
- Javascript
- RESTful APIs
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor degree
Salary/Compensations
- $185,000—$218,000 USD
Benefits
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive 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
- Home office stipend
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- In-office perks: lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, snacks and beverages
- Relocation stipend may be available
About the Company
- Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions.
- Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities.
- Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
- Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Equal Opportunity
- Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences.
- Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.
