Principal Software Engineer

About Checkr
Checkr 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.

Checkr is looking for an experienced Principal 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.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the long-term architecture of our core systems
• Develop a cohesive engineering strategy for Checkr’s architecture
• Drive the work to evolve Checkr’s platform into Enterprise and International markets
• Drive the work to introduce Checkr’s first versioning strategy
• Lead and sponsor API governance groups and advocate for best practices
• Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs
• Ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our services
• Collaborate with the team in designing and implementing new features
• Partner with Product and management in project planning, focusing on timeline and scoping
• Evangelize Checkr’s APIs and be an advocate for Checkr in the developer community

What you bring:

• 4+ years leading architecture projects across an organization
• 8+ years experience in a leadership role
• 20+ years experience as a software engineer
• Experience developing in Ruby and GoLang 
• Solid understanding of Cloud technologies and all layers of backend stacks
• Strong collaboration, communication and project management skills
• Deep understanding of microservices design and asynchronous queueing models
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
• A strong sense of ownership
• Experience mentoring engineering and product teams in domain driven design 
• A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate

What you’ll get:

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• 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, home office stipend

At 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 $236,480 to $278,212 in Denver, CO.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr 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.