Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer II role stands out in a SaaS context because it sits at the intersection of product delivery and platform reliability. The listing points to a service-oriented architecture with asynchronous processing, mixed SQL and NoSQL data stores, and a production environment handling high transaction volumes. That combination is typical of mature SaaS systems where incremental feature work must coexist with operational rigor and measurable performance.
For a long-term SaaS engineering path, the role offers repeated exposure to the full lifecycle that matters in subscription software: shipping iteratively, instrumenting changes, and learning from real usage signals. Ownership from design through release, plus responsibility for monitoring and incident response, builds the practical skill set needed for teams that operate always-on products. The emphasis on experimentation and data-driven validation also maps well to SaaS organizations that rely on continuous optimization rather than periodic releases.
This position is best suited to an engineer who prefers cross-functional collaboration and is comfortable making tradeoffs across product, quality, and operability. It will fit someone who enjoys working across a web stack, values strong testing and documentation habits, and wants a role where production outcomes and customer impact are part of everyday engineering work.
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
As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. You will work in a collection of small services built on Ruby and Javascript, with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queues for asynchronous tasks. Checkr was founded by engineers for engineers; we want to create the best environment for developers to build, learn and love their work.
What you’ll do:
- Own the product development of features from design, implementation, to release
- Partner with product, design and other stakeholders in designing new features
- Collaborate with other engineers in architecting and implementing new features
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products
- Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of transactions a day
- Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful 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
- Develop new end to end web applications
- Instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven mindset
What you bring:
- 2+ years of full stack software development experience
- Proficiency in Ruby and Javascript/React (or similar languages/frameworks)
- Proficiency with test frameworks and automation (e.g. Cypress)
- Passionate about XP practices, Domain Driven Design, and Continuous Delivery
- Experience developing RESTful APIs. Experience with Elasticsearch nice to have
- Bonus points for experience with in-house component-based design systems
- Strong documentation skills
- A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
- A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders
- An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun
What you’ll 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
