Senior Software Engineer, Checkr

• You have strong product opinions and aren’t afraid to voice them
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
• You value in-person collaboration and fast iteration with the team
• You know when to optimize for speed versus striving for perfection
• You are comfortable working access the entire software stack
• You take full ownership—from idea to execution to real customer and business impact
• BS/MS degree in either computer science or electrical engineering
• Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups
• 6+ years of full stack software development experience
• Advanced knowledge in Ruby (Ruby on Rails)/ Javascript (React), or similar languages/frameworks
• Amazing product sense - we will ask you how the product should look like
• Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
• Experience building scalable technical architecture that can scale to 10mm+ users (including observability tooling, container orchestration, etc)
• We are committed to leveling the playing field and welcome all interested candidates to apply, even if you don’t meet every qualification outlined above

Desirable

• Since launching, we’ve seen significant growth and we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in the continued growth of our startup
• Work closely with customers, engineers, and leaders to design, build, and launch new products
• Take full ownership of the entire process of developing end-to-end applications – from shaping the idea to delivering the finished application
• Build and improve APIs, including integrating with third-party services to expand what our products can do
• Embrace a customer-centric, product-first approach – partner directly with customer success, customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs and turn those into useful features
• Keep code reliable and easy to maintain with solid testing, thoughtful reviews, and good practices
• Run and measure product experiments, using what you learn to guide future development
• Building scalable APIs and asynchronous event-based architecture that can reliably handle very high traffic