Software Engineer, Check
Infrastructure
$185-231k
Embedded payroll platform
Job no longer available
Embedded payroll platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$185-231k
101-200 employees
Company mission
Check's mission is to make paying people simple by enabling software platforms to build differentiated payroll experiences.
Role
Who you are
- Fluency with AWS, Python, Terraform, databases, networking, APIs, observability platforms
- Exercised and nuanced understanding of scalability principles, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures through experience working on critical systems
- Innate sense of ownership, along with the aptitude to navigate ambiguity, self-start, and create structure for oneself and others
- Experience setting up and adapting cloud and application infrastructure in rapidly changing environments
- Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to multiple audiences. Excellent, effective writing skills, with a bias toward documentation
- Demonstrated empathy for users and stakeholders and humility, enhancing a user-centric approach to system improvements
- Willingness and ability to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall
What the job involves
- Lead improvements to the scalability, security, and performance of the platform and development effectiveness of our engineering organization alongside the CTO and a small, experienced team
- Identify, architect, build, and lead platform improvements to accelerate impact and encourage best practices across Engineering across scalability, observability, security, and reliability
- Build trust through exemplary individual contribution, collaboration, guidance, and mentorship of senior engineers, and creative problem-solving with functional leaders
- Manage and scale Check's infrastructure via infrastructure-as-code, balancing opportunity and cost management
- Advise senior management on system risks and work to determine an acceptable risk appetite while weighing overall business and usability impact
- Lead by example on an effective, sustainable, growth-oriented incident response culture
- Participate in threat modeling and mitigation with Security leadership
- Participate in product and engineering design reviews to incorporate high engineering standards
Our take
The rise of the internet has resulted in massive improvements and innovations in the world of financial services. In today's landscape, there are many ways to send and receive money, yet the archaic technology powering payroll systems does not reflect this change.
Check develops modern infrastructure to enable companies to embed payroll solutions directly within industry software. This is achieved through a range of customizable API tools that can be embedded directly within internal time-tracking systems, preventing the need for convoluted spreadsheets, external databases, and unnecessary software.
With good funding at its back, Check is now focussed on scaling its success in vertical and workforce SaaS. It's also tackling new sectors across online staffing, fraud protection, talent marketplaces, and more.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2022
$75m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $120m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & sick leave
- 16 weeks paid family leave
- $2000 annual individual training budget
- Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- $1000 home office stipend, and $100 per month for internet and cell
- Weekly pay
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Brown
(CEO)Was the co-founder and CTO at Oyster, which was acquired by Google in 2015. Subsequently worked at Google Play.
Vivek Patel
(CTO)Previous President of Tech@NYU and then Software Engineer at Oyster. Also worked at Google as Senior Software Engineer.
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