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Senior Software Engineer, Incubator

Checkr· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$185k - $218kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer role at Checkr within the Incubator/Trust area, focused on building scalable APIs, end-to-end product development, and customer-centric features for a high-traffic data platform.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Skills

Required:Ruby on RailsJavaScriptAPI designTesting & code quality

Benefits

  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • Learning and development allowance
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Working at a startup within a startup
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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