Checkr

Technology

EngineeringManager,Verifications

$225–315k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Engineering Manager, Verifications at Checkr. Skills: Team leadership, System scalability, Product roadmap. Lead and grow Verifications engineering team. Set technical direction”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve accuracy; Improve turnaround time; Reduce manual touchpoints; Scale delivery; Scale data quality systems; Scale automation systems; Expand coverage; Build faster experience; Build consistent experience

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Problem solving

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years engineering manager, 8+ years software engineer, Experience managing third-party integrations, Experience improving operational metrics, Experience with regulated products, Incident management skills, Ability to make prioritization decisions, Communication skills across stakeholders

Nice to Have

Familiarity with AI-assisted development, Experience with agentic coding tools

What You'll Do.

Lead and grow Verifications engineering team

Set technical direction

Drive performance conversations

Drive career development conversations

Build hiring pipeline

Own reliability of fulfillment integrations

Own quality of fulfillment integrations

Partner with internal stakeholders

Improve turnaround times

Minimize candidate impact

Minimize customer impact

Translate customer requirements

Translate regulatory requirements

Drive technical strategy

Make architecture decisions

Reduce manual exceptions

Build automated experience

Build consistent verification experience

Lead AI-assisted development adoption

Represent Verifications in planning

Serve as engineering voice

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Product; Partner with Compliance; Partner with Engineering leadership; Cross-functional planning

Communication Scope

Technical communication; Non-technical communication

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning, Prioritization decisions

Full Job Description

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company. About the role The Verifications team is responsible for one of Checkr's most expansive product portfolios, an ever growing suite of screening products empowering informed decisions across our enterprise customers. Employment and education verifications, drug and occupational health screenings, reference checks, and right-to-work – are several of the products this team improves to drive growth and customer retention. Our customers place candidates into widely different roles, industries, and regulatory environments, each with distinct compliance and screening requirements, necessitating rapid product iteration across multiple fronts concurrently. As Engineering Manager for Verifications, you'll own a wide surface area with meaningful room to make it better — improving accuracy and turnaround time, reducing manual touchpoints, and scaling how the team delivers across a complex mix of fulfillment integrations and compliance requirements. This role requires a focus on both immediate system scalability and long-term delivery process refinement. This includes near-term work on scaling data quality and automation systems to handle rapid growth, alongside strategic, longer-horizon investments in expanding coverage and building a faster, more consistent verification experience for our rapidly scaling candidate and customer base. What you’ll do Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team — setting technical direction, driving

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