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About the Role
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Mortgage, you will lead the entire Mortgage engineering team, owning the platform end to end, from APIs and integrations to AI/ML models and customer-facing product experience. You will run engineering with a business owner's mindset, partnering with product to set roadmaps, owning delivery against growth targets, and building a team to serve the largest lenders in the country. This role is ideal for a leader who has built and scaled high-performing engineering teams, stays hands-on with technical execution, and is comfortable working in the business as well as on it.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap and architecture for the Mortgage platform and partner with product management to co-own product direction, build new features, and enhance existing ones.
- Own delivery for the Mortgage business line, and partner with the business's leadership as a peer, jointly accountable for the business's results.
- Set the technical direction for the team, reduce technical debt, and scale the architecture sustainably while maintaining delivery speed.
- Represent engineering in annual strategy planning, including capacity modeling, headcount planning, and prioritization tradeoffs.
- Manage quality incidents as both technical lead and communication lead.
- Hire and continually raise the bar for engineering talent, and mentor team members.
- Build direct relationships with customers and drive results in partnership with them.
Requirements
- 8+ years as an engineering manager and 12+ years as an engineer overall, including experience managing large teams, in addition to managing managers.
- Experience owning a P&L or business line, including revenue targets, capacity planning, and cross-functional accountability, ideally for products operating at scale in highly regulated environments.
- Deep understanding of service architecture, system design, and lean software development principles, with the ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly, balancing technical and business tradeoffs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical strategy into business terms for executives.
- Experience with machine learning and AI, and enthusiasm for working in an AI-native company.
- Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn.
- A-player mindset: a strong bias for action, urgency, resilience through ambiguity, and ownership of outcomes.
Skills
- Machine learning
- AI
- Service architecture
- System design
- Lean software development
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $269,000—$316,000 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.
- Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment, income, and asset information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more.
- We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents and outdated processes, with a better product and intense customer focus.
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.