Checkr is looking to solve the problem of building safer communities by providing risk signals about users to its customers, and is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in the continued growth of its startup, Checkr Trust.
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge in Ruby (Ruby on Rails)/ Javascript (React), or similar languages/frameworks
- 6+ years of full stack software development experience
- Experience building scalable technical architecture that can scale to 10mm+ users (including observability tooling, container orchestration, etc)
- BS/MS degree in either computer science or electrical engineering
- Experience with trust & safety, IDV, background check products or criminal data (nice to have)
- Experience with data analysis and processing (nice to have)
- Experience building and working with scrapers and scraping technology (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- BS/MS degree in either computer science or electrical engineering
- Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups
- Strong product opinions and aren’t afraid to voice them
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
- Value in-person collaboration and fast iteration with the team
