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Check is rebuilding payroll infrastructure by providing embedded payroll APIs and platforms to businesses of all sizes. As the inventors of embedded payroll, Check powers the businesses that run payroll rather than running it themselves.
The Partner Engineering team bridges technical expertise with strategic guidance to help partners (customers) unlock the full potential of their payroll solutions. This role combines hands-on engineering work with customer-facing advisory responsibilities.
As a Partner Engineer, you will serve as both a technical builder and strategic advisor to prospective and existing partners. You will write production code, architect integrations, and build features alongside Check's core engineering organization. Key responsibilities include:
**Implementation & Integration:**
- Act as the bridge between sales and partners' engineering teams, ensuring smooth technical handoffs
- Write code alongside partner teams to accelerate integrations, debug complex issues, and demonstrate best practices
- Architect robust, scalable integration patterns for partners building on Check's platform
- Provide high-level implementation plans and time-to-market estimates
- Offer structured feedback to internal product and engineering teams based on partner experiences
- Assist partners in architecting, troubleshooting, and optimizing their integrations
**Post-Sales Support & Partner Success:**
- Serve as subject matter expert and trusted advisor to partners post-integration
- Own post-sales technical strategy and roadmap alignment with partners
- Establish and maintain relationships with key technical stakeholders from engineers to C-suite
- Provide proactive strategic and technical guidance to drive partner adoption and growth
- Act as advocate for partner needs within internal teams, influencing product development
- Build key features that unlock value for Check's partners—you write the code, not just the spec
- Serve as escalation point for complex technical issues beyond standard support
- Build partner-facing documentation and technical enablement resources
**AI Strategy & Adoption:**
- Lead Check's company-wide efforts to identify, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across product and internal stack
- Evaluate emerging AI frameworks, models, and tooling; make concrete recommendations and own build-out of high-priority initiatives
- Collaborate with product and engineering to define Check's AI roadmap and serve as internal champion for responsible AI adoption
- Help partners leverage AI to improve their own payroll and workforce management workflows
You will work closely with cross-functional teams including sales, engineering, and product management. The role requires comfort operating at the intersection of engineering and product—going deep in a codebase while communicating tradeoffs clearly to non-technical executives.
**Requirements:**
- Demonstrated experience building with AI (LLMs, AI agents, AI-powered tooling) and strong point of view on where AI creates leverage in product and engineering contexts
- Strong communication skills and executive presence; ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Problem-solving mindset with entrepreneurial approach to tackling challenges
- Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environment
- Intellectual curiosity and adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs
- 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code; experience in customer-facing or solutions engineering roles at FinTech or SaaS platform preferred
- Hands-on experience working with APIs and technical infrastructure; experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs into web applications required
- Comfort operating at intersection of engineering and product
- Willing and able to attend annual 3-day company offsite in spring and travel occasionally to support partners
Check is distributed across the US with offices in New York City and San Francisco. This role can be remote, hybrid, or office-based. Remote work requires ability to perform all responsibilities without distraction while maintaining quality communication and productivity.
