Senior Staff Software Engineer
Checkr is looking for an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to facilitate the long-term design of Checkr’s core systems and to lead critical cross-organizational initiatives, including the international expansion of our platform and development of an Enterprise Architecture. In this role, you will work across the entire R&D organization to deeply understand the product’s domain models and customer needs, and work across all teams to ensure that Checkr is architecting a best-in-class, API-first product that can scale into the future.
What you'll do:
Proactively identify the top opportunities for impact for the engineering organization
Own direction and lead execution of organization-wide technical efforts
Hands-on contribution in areas with a high degree of business risk
Break down very complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
Create documents to set standards of architectural best practices that the broader engineering organization consumes
Upskill the Staff Engineers in the company to systematically raise the bar for quality and scale
Inform buy vs build decisions, supporting broad business strategy
Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs, and represent your teams in technical conversations with company leadership
What you bring:
Degree in computer science or related field (Bachelor's or Master's)
2+ years leading architecture projects across an organization
5+ years of experience in a leadership role
15+ years of experience as a software engineer
Experience developing in Ruby, GoLang, and Python
Solid understanding of cloud technologies and all layers of backend stacks
Deep understanding of microservices design and asynchronous queueing models
Experience designing and maintaining real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
Experience mentoring engineering and product teams in domain-driven design
Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
Strong collaboration, communication, and project management skills
A strong sense of ownership
A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate
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Pay Transparency Disclosure
We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)
$257,000—$302,000 USD