Software Engineer

$25,000 - $165,815/Yr

Checkr - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - San Francisco, CA

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Checkr is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the Candidates team, which is vital to the company's mission of providing a fast and fair background check process. The role involves developing and maintaining systems that manage candidate application flows, enhancing data processing capabilities, and ensuring a smooth experience for candidates. The Software Engineer will work on high-impact projects that contribute directly to Checkr's core functionality.

Responsibilities

• Own the product development of features from design, 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
• Experimentation mindset - validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
• Quality mindset - insist on quality as a critical pillar of software deliverables
• Develop new end to end web applications
• Instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven mindset

Requirements

• 3+ years of full stack software development experience
• Proficiency in Javascript, React and Ruby (or similar languages/frameworks)
• Proficiency with test frameworks and automation (e.g. Cypress)
• Experience developing RESTful APIs
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• Bonus points for experience with in-house component-based design systems
• Some good product sense - not every UI flow will have a mockup ready for you :)

Benefits

• 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 stipend