Senior Backend Software Engineer

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

About CheckrCheckr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster-and fairer-way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that's fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.About the team/roleCheckr is looking for a skilled backend Senior Software Engineer to join the Monetization team. Our team is dedicated to enhancing Checkr's scalability, flexibility, and speed to market for products by developing and promoting adoption of foundational pricing and billing components. You will play a critical role in building and enhancing systems that enable Checkr to automate the entire quote to cash lifecycle. You will be working on building and improving the platform to support all of Checkr's current and future automated monetization processes.You will play a critical role in executing proof of concept projects, driving towards a north star architectural vision for monetizing our background check products, and ensuring seamless internal customer validation and platform adoption.You will be vital in deprecating legacy platforms components to reduce complexity and enhance developer productivity. Addressing increased development capability and mitigating tech debt are key challenges in this role, ensuring the robustness and reliability of our platform. If you enjoy working on impactful platform solutions and thrive while collaborating with diverse teams, come join us!What you'll do

• Own the product development of features from ideation, design collaboration, implementation, to release
• Partner closely with other Engineering and Product teams in architecting new platform capabilities
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products
• Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code
• Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team
• Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organizationWhat you bring
  • 5+ years of backend software development experience
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Ruby (preferred), Python, or Golang
  • Strong domain modeling, object design and system architecture skills
  • Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as relational databases, data structure and algorithms, Object Relational Mapping, REST APIs, microservices, etc.
  • A strong sense of ownership across all aspects of the development lifecycle
  • Desire to collaborate and share knowledge with peers, both within the team and across the organization
  • An eagerness to learn, improve, and innovateWhat you'll get
    • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
    • Learning and development allowance
    • Competitive 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, home office stipendAt Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.One of Checkr's core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we've made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. 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.The base salary range for this role is $183,000 to $215,000 in San Francisco, CA.Equal Employment Opportunities at CheckrCheckr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr's commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance.
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