Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Engineering Manager role sits at the intersection of platform evolution and customer-facing delivery, a common pressure point for mature SaaS products that need to expand capabilities without sacrificing reliability. Owning a Mortgage Verifications team within Truework at Checkr signals work in a domain where software decisions carry operational and regulatory consequences, and where scale is measured in high-volume, high-stakes workflows rather than isolated features.
For a SaaS career, the role offers leverage in the areas that tend to differentiate senior engineering leaders: shaping technical direction while partnering tightly with product, managing tradeoffs between new product launches and architectural sustainability, and building mechanisms to reduce technical debt over time. Exposure to quality incidents and incident communication also maps closely to how SaaS organizations build trust as they grow, making the experience transferable across subscription platforms that operate at scale.
This position is best suited to an experienced people leader who enjoys translating ambiguous product goals into durable systems and repeatable engineering practices. It will fit someone comfortable balancing stakeholder alignment, hiring and coaching, and hands-on technical judgment, especially in environments where correctness, auditability, and customer impact influence day-to-day prioritization.
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Job Description
About the role
The Truework Team at Checkr is looking for a motivated Engineering Manager to lead our Mortgage Verifications Team. This team is responsible for building and launching new products, customer-facing experiences, and enhancing the Truework platform. As the Engineering Manager for this team, you will work hand-in-hand with product managers and key stakeholders to create the software and experiences that delight our customers. The projects you’ll be working on are high impact and scale: you’ll be advancing our architecture and systems to lead Truework and Checkr into the next generation of product offerings. The decisions you make will impact potentially millions of consumers every year, and help businesses make fast, informed, and safe decisions.
What you’ll do:
- Drive technical vision for the team that motivates and inspires 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 customers and drive results with them
- Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations
- Hire the 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
- 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
- Able to develop inclusive teams to foster growth and diversity
- Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
- Experience with machine learning and AI is a plus
- 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.
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
