Engineering Manager

Who you are

• 4+ years as an engineering manager; 8+ years as an engineer
• A concrete track record of rolling out AI adoption across a team - with guardrails and a baseline you measured against, not just "I use Copilot"
• Quantitative fluency: you can explain not just the metric behind a business-impact claim you've made, but the methodology and baseline behind it
• A demonstrated pattern of co-owning product direction - shaping problems and disagreeing productively with Product - rather than taking specs and executing
• Experience managing incidents in production systems at scale, as both technical lead and communicator
• Experience working on regulated, high-stakes products where data accuracy and compliance matter (fintech, healthcare, identity, or similar) - comfort with ambiguity matters more here than process maturity from a large, established org
• Strong system design and architecture judgment; comfortable making prioritization calls with incomplete information
• A track record of growing engineers and building inclusive, high-functioning teams
• Openness to feedback and genuine curiosity - you'll be learning alongside a team that's evolving fast
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes

What the job involves

• Checkr’s Mortgage Verifications team builds the systems lenders use to verify income and employment for millions of mortgage applicants a year - work that sits at the intersection of consumer data, regulated financial decisions, and ML/AI-driven automation
• We're mid-flight on a major evolution of our verification products, and next-generation prediction models for verification outcomes
• As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of ~8 engineers building this platform end-to-end - from the APIs and Integrations core to the platform, to the AI/ML models that power verification decisions to the customer-facing product experience
• You'll report into Mortgage engineering leadership with direct visibility to the executive leadership team, and you'll partner closely with the product team to shape what ships next
• The decisions this team makes affect real people's ability to get a mortgage - the stakes and the scale are real, and so is the room to make an impact fast
• Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team as we scale our self-serve verification product through its next launch phases
• Drive team-level AI adoption - not just personal tool use, but rollout with real guardrails, baselines, and a measured effect on how the team ships
• Co-own product direction with your PM partner: shape the problem, create alignment where warranted, and don't just execute a handed-off spec
• Lead the team through platform modernization while shipping new features in a highly regulated, high-stakes domain
• Manage production incidents as both technical lead and communication lead, in a system where downtime has real business and consumer impact
• Grow your engineers' careers - including building the case for promotions and identifying where each person wants to go next
• Hire senior and staff-level engineering talent to grow the team through its next phase
• Represent the team's priorities and progress to product and executive stakeholders, with the data and methodology to back up any impact claim you make

Benefits

• Parental leave
• Stock optoins
• Work from home opportunities
• Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
• Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
• A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
• Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
• Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
• Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice