Senior Python Engineer, Truework

About Checkr

Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014 Checkrs innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100000 customers including DoorDash Coinbase Lyft Instacart and Airtable.

Were a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes CloudList and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the Role

Truework recently acquired by Checkr provides access to crucial employment and income information needed for mortgage loans apartment rentals background checks and more. We are disrupting a $5B industry dominated by legacy incumbents with a better product and intense customer focus. Within Checkr Truework operates independently allowing rapid iteration while also being able to leverage the strengths and assets from our core business. Think of it like joining a startup within a startup!

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Truework team you will help develop and maintain the platform thats used by 8 of the top 10 mortgage lenders in the US. At Checkr Engineers take ownership and responsibility on all aspects of Product development from leading projects working with product managers and customers to define and implement features to collaborating with our sales and marketing teams on launching and scaling products. Youll have a lot of autonomy and will be successful if you have high agency and a keen sense of craftsmanship for yourself and others.

Most of the work we need to do is backend-oriented but we are open to candidates from a broad set of roles (full stack backend QA engineers SREs etc.) if you meet our requirements.

What youll do

• Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal / high-level oversight and a high level of ownership
• Bring a customer-centric product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
• Partner with engineering product design and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features
• Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need get team buy-in and ship a rapid MVP
• Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
• Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
• Deliver performant reliable scalable and secure code capable of supporting Trueworks significant scale
• Monitor investigate triage and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team

What you bring

What youll get

Pay Transparency Disclosure

One of Checkrs core values is Transparency. To live by that value weve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy see our website .

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco CA)

$183000 - $215000 USD

At Checkr we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration drives innovation and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver CO San Francisco CA and Santiago Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. Starting January 2026 hub-based employees will be expected to work from the office 3 days per -office perks are provided such as lunch four times a week a commuter stipend and an abundance of snacks and beverages.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local state and / or federal laws including the San Franciscos Fair Chance Ordinance .

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

APIs,Docker,Jenkins,REST,Python,AWS,NoSQL,MySQL,JavaScript,Postgresql,Django,GIT

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 183000 - 215000