Senior Engineering Manager, Checkr
Big Data
$201-237k
2-3 days a week in office
Automated background checks
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1001+ employees
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$201-237k
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years as an engineering manager
- 8+ years as an engineer
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Unparalleled bar for quality (data quality metrics, QC gates, data governance, automated regression test suites, data validations, etc)
- Experience working on data products at scale and understanding the legal, human impact, and technical nuances of supporting a highly regulated product
- Experience designing and maintaining:
- Real-time & batch processing data pipelines serving up billions of data points
- Normalizing and cleansing data across a medallion lakehouse architecture
- Systems that rely on high-volume, low-latency messaging infrastructure (e.g. Kafka or similar)
- Highly tolerant production systems with streamlined operations (data lineage, logging, telemetry, alerting, etc.)
- Familiarity with AWS Glue, OpenSearch, EMR, etc
- Familiarity with DevOps (including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerization, etc)
- Familiarity with developing APIs and backend microservices
- Exposure to machine learning / AI to solve complex data challenges, such as transformation, deduplication, and enrichment
- Exposure to working in the identity space (entity resolution)
- Exposure to managing a globally distributed team
What the job involves
- Checkr is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Criminal Data team. This team is responsible for big data at Checkr: ingesting, storing, and processing records in the billions. As the Senior Engineering Manager for this team, you will be in charge of shaping the technical strategy and overseeing project delivery.
- The projects you’ll be working on are high impact and scale: you’ll be advancing our architecture and systems to lead Checkr into the next generation of product offerings. The decisions you make will impact millions of people every year, and help businesses make fast, informed, and safe decisions
- Drive a motivating technical vision for the team
- Partner closely with product management to solve business problems
- Work with the team to build a world-class architecture that can scale into the next phase of Checkr’s growth
- Hire the best talent and continue to raise the bar for the team
- Represent the team in planning and product meetings
- Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $550.2m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(CTO)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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