checkr
Senior Software Engineer, Trust
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Posted
- 2026-02-27T17:39:34-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
Requirements
BS/MS degree in either computer science or an engineering discipline.
Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups.
6+ years of full stack software development experience.
Advanced knowledge in Ruby (Rails), Javascript (React), or similar languages/frameworks.
Experimentation mindset: autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP.
Early-stage approach: comfort with ambiguity, balancing speed and perfection, and the confidence and curiosity to help guide product direction.
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.