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Salary: USD 233,000 - 274,000 / annual
Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. The company serves over 140,000 customers including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Anthropic, helping millions of people in critical moments: employment, housing, transportation, childcare, and dating. Checkr is on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
The Truework Team seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Mortgage Verifications Team, responsible for building and launching new products, customer-facing experiences, and enhancing the Truework platform. You will partner closely with product managers and key stakeholders to create software and experiences that delight customers. The projects are high-impact and scale, advancing architecture and systems for next-generation product offerings. Your decisions will impact millions of consumers annually and help businesses make fast, informed, and safe decisions.
Key responsibilities include: driving technical vision that motivates the team; partnering with product management on new features and enhancements; reducing technical debt and sustainably scaling architecture; building customer relationships and driving results; nurturing and growing team members based on career aspirations; hiring top talent and raising the bar; representing the team in planning and product meetings; and optimizing engineering processes to drive velocity and quality.
Required qualifications: 4+ years as an engineering manager; 8+ years as an engineer; strong critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills; experience managing quality incidents as technical and communication lead; experience with products at scale in highly regulated environments; strong TDD, pair programming, and agile methodology experience; deep understanding of service architecture, system design, and lean software development; ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly; capability to develop inclusive, diverse teams; humility and openness to feedback; A-player mindset with bias for action, urgency, resilience, and ownership. Machine learning and AI experience is a plus.
