About the Role
Checkr Trust is building safer communities by providing customers with risk signals about its users. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the continued growth of our startup, taking significant end-to-end ownership from idea to execution and customer impact.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with customers, engineers, and leaders to design, build, and launch new products.
- Take full ownership of the entire process of developing end-to-end applications – from shaping the idea to delivering the finished application.
- Build and improve APIs, including integrating with third-party services to expand product capabilities.
- Embrace a customer-centric, product-first approach – partner directly with customer success, customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs and turn those into useful features.
- Keep code reliable and easy to maintain with solid testing, thoughtful reviews, and good practices.
- Run and measure product experiments, using what you learn to guide future development.
- Building scalable APIs and asynchronous event-based architecture that can reliably handle very high traffic.
Requirements
- BS/MS degree in either computer science or an engineering discipline.
- Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups.
- 5+ years of full stack software development experience.
- Experimentation mindset: autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP.
- Early-stage approach: comfort with ambiguity, balancing speed and perfection, and the confidence and curiosity to help guide product direction.
- 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.
- Experience building scalable technical architecture that can scale to 10mm+ users (including observability tooling, container orchestration, etc).
- Background in trust & safety, IDV, background check products or criminal data.
- Expertise in data analysis and processing.
- Experience building and working with scrapers and scraping technology.
Skills
- Ruby (Rails)
- Javascript (React)
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite (3+ days a week)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of full stack software development experience
- Senior
Education Level
- BS/MS degree in computer science or an engineering discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $185,000—$218,000 USD
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
- Lunch five times a week
- Commuter stipend
- 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.
- Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic.
- Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
- Trust is part of the Checkr start-up lab: we operate with the speed of a small startup, while enjoying the leverage and resources of a known technology brand.
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.
