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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 navigate critical moments like job applications, housing, and gig work. Checkr is on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and was 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 and customer-facing experiences on the Truework platform. This role combines technical leadership with people management, focusing on high-impact, scalable projects that affect millions of consumers annually.
Key responsibilities include:
- Driving technical vision and architecture strategy for the team
- Partnering with product management to build and enhance features
- Reducing technical debt and sustainably scaling systems
- Building customer relationships and delivering results
- Nurturing and growing team members; hiring top talent
- Representing the team in planning and product meetings
- Optimizing engineering processes for 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 both technical and communication lead
- Experience with regulated, data-sensitive products at scale
- Proficiency in TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies
- Deep understanding of service architecture, system design, and lean software development
- Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly
- Commitment to building inclusive, diverse teams
- Humility, openness to feedback, and learning mindset
- Machine learning/AI experience is a plus
- A-player mindset with bias for action, urgency, resilience, and ownership
Compensation includes competitive salary, equity, 100% medical/dental/vision coverage, learning allowance, flexible PTO, and wellness benefits.
