Engineering Manager (Verifications)

• 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
• Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team — setting technical direction, driving performance and career development conversations, and building a hiring pipeline that strengthens the team over time
• Own the reliability and quality of a broad portfolio of fulfillment integrations — partnering closely with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction, improve turnaround times, and minimize candidate and customer impact when issues arise
• Partner with Product to define and execute the roadmap across employment, education, drug and health, and compliance products — translating customer and regulatory requirements into clear engineering priorities
• Drive technical strategy for scaling a complex, integration-heavy system — making deliberate architecture decisions that improve coverage, reduce manual exceptions, and build toward a more automated and consistent verification experience
• Lead the team’s adoption of AI-assisted development practices — helping engineers move faster while maintaining the quality and accuracy standards that a regulated, data-sensitive product requires
• Represent Verifications in cross-functional planning — serving as the engineering voice on team capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing with Product, Compliance, and Engineering leadership

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- Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
• 8+ years as a software engineer, with strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design
• 4+ years as an engineering manager, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams
• A track record of improving operational metrics — reducing incident frequency, improving detection time, or shipping reliability improvements in high-stakes production environments
• A genuine investment in developing people — through career conversations, stretch assignments, and creating conditions for engineers to grow
• Strong incident management skills — you can lead both the technical response and the stakeholder communication when things go wrong
• Ability to make prioritization decisions quickly, with a clear framework for balancing short-term reliability work against longer-term product investments
• Experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non-negotiable
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders — Product, Operations, Compliance, and senior leadership
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools — you understand how to help your team adopt these responsibly and can reason about the tradeoffs between velocity and quality they introduce
• 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
• Experience managing complex third-party integration environments — you’re comfortable owning reliability across systems you don’t fully control, and know how to structure teams and processes around that reality