Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Frontend Engineer for Growth role stands out because it sits directly on the self-serve funnel—where many SaaS businesses win or lose efficiency. Work tied to acquisition, activation, expansion, and retention tends to be highly measurable, and it forces strong alignment between product intent, user experience, and instrumentation. The remit also suggests a mature product surface: shipping customer-facing capabilities while maintaining availability through on-call and support work.
From a SaaS career perspective, the mix of experimentation and product delivery builds durable skills: designing for iterative learning, translating data into prioritised changes, and balancing near-term conversion gains with long-term maintainability. Experience partnering closely with Product and Design on roadmap sizing is particularly transferable across subscription software, where incremental improvements compound over time. Reliability responsibilities add a practical understanding of how growth initiatives interact with operational constraints.
This role is best suited to an experienced frontend engineer who enjoys owning outcomes rather than only implementing tickets, and who is comfortable navigating trade-offs across UX, performance, and measurement. It will appeal to someone who likes mentoring and influencing engineering practices, and who prefers work that connects directly to customer behaviour and business levers common in SaaS.
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
As a Senior Frontend Engineer for Growth at Checkr, you will play a crucial role in advancing 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, innovate, and inspire the team to bring a customer-first mindset to the self-serve experience and make it delightful for customers.
What you'll do:
- Develop new customer experience capabilities and product offerings from design through release
- Find the balance between speed to market and long-term growth by designing for the horizon and building for today
- Bring an iterative mindset to experiment, learn, and iterate to provide the best experience for the customers
- Partner with Product to define appropriately sized initiatives to construct a roadmap that meets business needs quarter over quarter
- Preserve customer goodwill by ensuring system availability by participating in on-call rotation, addressing support tickets, and taking action on preventative measures to improve reliability
- Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization
- Play an active role in the continuous improvement of the engineering organization through lunch table discussions, team showcases, and reviews with senior leadership
What you bring:
- 5+ years of professional experience building web applications
- Strong React skills — deep understanding of hooks, context, component patterns, and performance optimization
- TypeScript proficiency in a production environment
- Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress)
- Experience running A/B experiments and using data to inform product decisions
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
- Excellent collaboration skills — comfortable working directly with Product Managers and Designers
- Strong communication skills — can articulate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have:
- Experience with experimentation platforms (Amplitude, Optimizely, LaunchDarkly, Split)
- Experience with state management patterns (Redux, React Query, Context)
- Familiarity with CSS-in-JS (Styled Components)
- Experience with feature flag systems
- E2E testing experience (Cypress)
What you’ll get:
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity 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
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