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About the Role
Checkr’s Mortgage Verifications team builds systems for lenders to verify income and employment for millions of mortgage applicants annually. This role involves leading a team of approximately 8 engineers in building this platform end-to-end, from APIs and Integrations to AI/ML models and customer-facing product experience. The work is at the intersection of consumer data, regulated financial decisions, and ML/AI-driven automation, with significant impact on individuals' ability to obtain a mortgage.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team during the scaling of the self-serve verification product.
- Drive team-level AI adoption, including rollout with guardrails, baselines, and measured effects on shipping.
- Co-own product direction with the PM partner, shaping problems and creating alignment.
- Lead the team through platform modernization while shipping new features in a regulated, high-stakes domain.
- Manage production incidents as both technical and communication lead.
- Grow engineers' careers, including building cases for promotions and identifying career paths.
- Hire senior and staff-level engineering talent to expand the team.
- Represent team priorities and progress to product and executive stakeholders with supporting data and methodology.
Requirements
- 4+ years as an engineering manager
- 8+ years as an engineer
- A concrete track record of rolling out AI adoption across a team with measured guardrails and baselines.
- Quantitative fluency to explain the methodology and baseline behind business-impact claims.
- Demonstrated pattern of co-owning product direction, shaping problems, and disagreeing productively with Product.
- Experience managing incidents in production systems at scale as both technical lead and communicator.
- Experience working on regulated, high-stakes products where data accuracy and compliance matter (fintech, healthcare, identity, or similar).
- Comfort with ambiguity.
- Strong system design and architecture judgment.
- Ability to make prioritization calls with incomplete information.
- A track record of growing engineers and building inclusive, high-functioning teams.
- Openness to feedback and genuine curiosity.
- An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: raising the bar, moving with urgency, staying resilient through ambiguity, and taking ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.
Skills
- AI adoption
- System design
- Architecture judgment
- Prioritization
- Team leadership
- Mentoring engineers
- Hiring
- Stakeholder management
- Incident management
- Communication
Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Denver, CO
- Nashville, TN
- Santiago, Chile
Work Type
- Hybrid
- On-site
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior Engineer
Salary/Compensations
- $233,000—$274,000 USD
Benefits
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- 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.
- Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic.
- 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.