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Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. The company serves over 140,000 companies including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Anthropic, and is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and as a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
As Engineering Manager for Verifications, you will lead a team responsible for one of Checkr's most expansive product portfolios, including employment and education verifications, drug and occupational health screenings, reference checks, and right-to-work products. The Verifications team powers informed decisions across enterprise customers operating in diverse industries and regulatory environments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and growing the Verifications engineering team, setting technical direction, driving performance and career development, and building a hiring pipeline
- Owning reliability and quality of a broad portfolio of fulfillment integrations, partnering with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction and improve turnaround times
- Partnering with Product to define and execute the roadmap across employment, education, drug/health, and compliance products
- Driving technical strategy for scaling a complex, integration-heavy system with deliberate architecture decisions that improve coverage and reduce manual exceptions
- Leading the team's adoption of AI-assisted development practices while maintaining quality and accuracy standards for a regulated, data-sensitive product
- Representing Verifications in cross-functional planning, serving as the engineering voice on capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing
You bring 4+ years as an engineering manager with a track record of building high-performing teams, plus 8+ years as a software engineer with strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design. You have experience managing complex third-party integration environments and a track record of improving operational metrics in high-stakes production environments. Familiarity with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools is important, as is experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non-negotiable. Strong incident management skills, prioritization frameworks, and cross-functional communication abilities are essential. You demonstrate genuine investment in developing people and bring humility, openness to feedback, and an A-player mindset with bias for action.
