Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Staff Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of SaaS product delivery and high-stakes decisioning infrastructure. Checkr’s screening and verification offerings operate in a regulated, data-intensive domain where product workflows must coordinate multiple systems, external vendors, and candidate-facing experiences. That combination makes the work representative of a mature SaaS platform problem set: reliability, auditability, and integration design are as central as feature velocity.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position emphasizes architectural leverage rather than single-team output. Operating across several product engineering teams and establishing repeatable patterns is the kind of scope that translates well to platform, infrastructure, and product-led architecture roles across subscription software businesses. The mandate to balance technical debt reduction with growth enablement also builds durable judgment around scaling practices, instrumentation, and service quality.
The role is best suited to senior engineers who prefer broad influence, hands-on technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and Data. It will fit someone comfortable shaping multi-system workflows, aligning stakeholders around technical direction, and mentoring others while still contributing directly to delivery and operational outcomes.
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 team/role
The Screenings & Verifications organization at Checkr develops and delivers the screening and verification products that power informed risk assessments for our customers. Our screening products span criminal history checks, driving records, employment verifications, and more, helping customers place candidates into jobs across a diverse range of industries and markets. Our mandate is to build high-quality products that drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction, across a complex, regulated domain.
As a Staff Engineer in this organization, you'll operate across several product engineering teams, driving the technical architecture of complex, multi-system workflows. You'll define how screening products are structured, how they interact with our candidate-facing systems, how they integrate with vendor data pipelines, and how we build repeatable patterns that accelerate the whole org. You'll set the technical bar and raise it through hands-on work, architecture leadership, and cross-team influence.
What you’ll do
- Own development of the product from ideation, design, implementation, to release
- Bring a customer-centric, product-first mindset to the table - collaborate with Design, Product, Data, and others to instrument and deploy new product experiments and ship impactful features
- Define and lead technical initiatives to enable growth at scale and address technical debt, both within the team and across the organization
- Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization
- Spread development best practices through knowledge sharing and documentation
- Partner with product and engineering management in quarterly and annual planning activities
- Ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our services
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of software development experience and 3+ years experience in a project leadership role
- Deep expertise in backend development (e.g., Ruby, Node.js, or similar), with working proficiency in frontend technologies such as JavaScript and React to support API development and integrations
- Experience building scalable systems with automated testing, observability, and high performance (A/B testing a plus)
- A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
- A proven ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong communication, project management, and a commitment to mentoring engineers
- 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
