Software Engineer

Checkr · Denver, Colorado, United States; San Francisco, California, United States · Engineering

Posted 2026-08-28

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As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high-impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. You will work in a collection of small services built on Ruby and Javascript, with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queues for asynchronous tasks. Checkr was founded by engineers for engineers; we want to create the best environment for developers to build, learn, and love their work.

What you’ll do

Own the product development of features from design and implementation to release

Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders in designing new features

Collaborate with other engineers in architecting and implementing new features

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products

Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of transactions a day

Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team

Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features

Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP

Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables

Develop new end-to-end web applications

Instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven mindset

What you bring:

3+ years of software development experience

Proficiency in Ruby and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks)

Proficiency with test frameworks and automation (e.g. Cypress)

Passionate about XP practices, Domain Driven Design, and Continuous Delivery

Experience developing RESTful APIs

Bonus points for experience with in-house component-based design systems

Strong documentation skills

A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release

A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders

An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun

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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)

$150,000—$176,000 USD

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO)

$127,000—$149,000 USD

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