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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Checkr, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Automation of Tests, Continuous Delivery, NoSQL, Queueing Systems, Release Management, Ruby, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Web Applications, Cypress (Programming Language), Extreme Programming, Restful APIs, Domain Driven Design
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/checkr/jobs/6917810

## About the Role

* 3+ years of software development experience
 * Proficiency in Ruby and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks)
 * Proficiency with test frameworks and automation (e.g. Cypress)
 * Passionate about XP practices, Domain Driven Design, and Continuous Delivery
 * Experience developing RESTful APIs
 * Bonus points for experience with in-house component-based design systems
 * Strong documentation skills
 * A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
 * A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders
 * An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun

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## Description

As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high-impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. You will work in a collection of small services built on Ruby and Javascript, with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queues for asynchronous tasks. Checkr was founded by engineers for engineers; we want to create the best environment for developers to build, learn, and love their work.

What you'll do

 * Own the product development of features from design and implementation to release
 * Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders in designing new features
 * Collaborate with other engineers in architecting and implementing new features
 * Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products
 * Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of transactions a day
 * Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team
 * Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
 * Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
 * Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
 * Develop new end-to-end web applications
 * Instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven mindset


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