Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Growth engineering leadership roles sit at the intersection of product delivery and revenue mechanics, and this one is anchored in self-serve—where acquisition, activation, expansion, and retention are shaped directly by in-product experiences. For a SaaS business, that typically means high iteration cadence, measurable outcomes, and careful coordination across multiple user touchpoints rather than a single feature area. The remit also signals a mature surface area: onboarding, engagement loops, and segment-based adoption are problems that emerge once a product has real scale and diverse customer behavior.
From a SaaS career perspective, the strongest value is exposure to disciplined experimentation and funnel thinking while still owning core engineering fundamentals like architecture and technical debt. Managing test-and-learn across “multiple surfaces” builds transferable instincts around instrumentation, guardrails, and decision-making under uncertainty—skills that translate across PLG and sales-assisted models. The emphasis on regulated, high-impact product considerations adds a layer of operational rigor that many SaaS leaders only develop later.
This role best fits an engineering manager who enjoys partnering tightly with product, setting a technical direction that supports business goals, and coaching teams through ambiguity. It suits someone comfortable balancing delivery with quality incidents, and who wants their leadership scope to include hiring, process design, and cross-functional influence.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role
Checkr is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Checkr Growth team. This team is hyper-focused on Checkr’s self-serve business delivering products and capabilities for Checkr’s growth funnel: Acquisition, Activation, Expansion & Retention. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire the engineering team to meet company objectives and bring new products and features to market.
What You’ll Do
- Lead a team to work on growth-focused initiatives such as increasing self-service customer conversions, improving the onboarding experience, creating engagement loops, and expanding product usage across segments.
- Lead test experimentation across multiple surfaces to unlock incremental business value while improving customer experience
- Drive technical vision for the team that motivates and excites the team for the next chapter
- Partner closely with product management to build new features and enhance existing ones
- Work with the team to reduce technical debt and sustainably scale our architecture
- Build relationships with cross-functional teams and drive results with them
- Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations
- Hire best of the talent and continue to raise the bar for the team
- Represent the team in planning and product meetings
- Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality
What you bring
- 4+ years as an engineering manager
- 8+ years as an engineer
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem-solving, and attention to detail
- Experience managing quality incidents as both a technical lead and communication lead
- Experience working on products at scale, and understanding the data, legal, human impact, and technical nuances of supporting highly regulated products
- Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies
- Deep understanding of service architecture and system design as well as lean software development principles
- Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly and thoughtfully
- Backbone to make tough decisions when necessary
- Able to develop inclusive teams to foster growth and diversity
- Ready to mentor the team to grow by providing stretch assignments and opportunities relevant to their interests
- Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
What you get
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend
