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About the Role

As Engineering Manager for Verifications, you'll own a wide surface area with meaningful room to make it better — improving accuracy and turnaround time, reducing manual touchpoints, and scaling how the team delivers across a complex mix of fulfillment integrations and compliance requirements. This role requires a focus on both immediate system scalability and long-term delivery process refinement. This includes near-term work on scaling data quality and automation systems to handle rapid growth, alongside strategic, longer-horizon investments in expanding coverage and building a faster, more consistent verification experience for our rapidly scaling candidate and customer base.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team — setting technical direction, driving performance and career development conversations, and building a hiring pipeline that strengthens the team over time
Own the reliability and quality of a broad portfolio of fulfillment integrations — partnering closely with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction, improve turnaround times, and minimize candidate and customer impact when issues arise
Partner with Product to define and execute the roadmap across employment, education, drug and health, and compliance products — translating customer and regulatory requirements into clear engineering priorities
Drive technical strategy for scaling a complex, integration-heavy system — making deliberate architecture decisions that improve coverage, reduce manual exceptions, and build toward a more automated and consistent verification experience
Lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted development practices — helping engineers move faster while maintaining the quality and accuracy standards that a regulated, data-sensitive product requires
Represent Verifications in cross-functional planning — serving as the engineering voice on team capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing with Product, Compliance, and Engineering leadership

Requirements

4+ years as an engineering manager, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams
8+ years as a software engineer, with strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design
Experience managing complex third-party integration environments — comfortable owning reliability across systems not fully controlled, and structuring teams and processes accordingly
A track record of improving operational metrics — reducing incident frequency, improving detection time, or shipping reliability improvements in high-stakes production environments
Familiarity with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools — understanding how to help teams adopt these responsibly and reasoning about tradeoffs between velocity and quality
Experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non-negotiable
Strong incident management skills — ability to lead technical response and stakeholder communication during incidents
Ability to make prioritization decisions quickly, with a clear framework for balancing short-term reliability work against longer-term product investments
Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders — Product, Operations, Compliance, and senior leadership
A genuine investment in developing people — through career conversations, stretch assignments, and creating growth conditions for engineers
Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes

Skills

Service architecture
Distributed systems
System design
AI-assisted development
Incident management
Communication skills

Location

San Francisco, CA
Denver, CO

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

4+ years as an engineering manager
8+ years as a software engineer

Salary/Compensations

$233,000—$274,000 USD (San Francisco, CA)
$197,000—$232,000 USD (Denver, CO)

Benefits

Learning and development allowance
Competitive cash and equity 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
In-office perks: lunch five times a week, 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. 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, and Anthropic.
We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. 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.