Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at an interesting intersection of SaaS scale and domain depth. Truework operates as an independently run product inside Checkr following an acquisition, which is a common pattern in SaaS where a focused platform is integrated into a larger ecosystem. The work is anchored in a data and verification platform used by major mortgage lenders, pointing to systems where reliability, security, and API design are central to product value.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, the role emphasizes end to end ownership across feature definition, implementation, and production operations. That blend of product engineering and platform responsibility maps well to modern SaaS teams that expect engineers to influence architecture, instrumentation, and experimentation, not just code delivery. Experience collaborating with product managers, customers, and go to market partners is also directly transferable to SaaS environments where feedback loops shape roadmaps.
This position best suits an engineer who prefers high agency work and clear accountability for outcomes. It will likely appeal to someone comfortable operating primarily in backend systems while remaining open to cross functional collaboration and iterative delivery. Candidates who enjoy pairing craftsmanship with pragmatic customer driven decisions should find the scope aligned.
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 Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
About the Role
Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment and income information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more. We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents, with a better product and intense customer focus. Within Checkr, Truework operates independently, allowing rapid iteration while also being able to leverage the strengths and assets from our core business. Think of it like joining a startup within a startup!
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Truework team you will help develop and maintain the platform that’s used by 8 of the top 10 mortgage lenders in the US. At Checkr, Engineers take ownership and responsibility on all aspects of Product development from leading projects, working with product managers and customers to define and implement features, to collaborating with our sales and marketing teams on launching and scaling products. You’ll have a lot of autonomy and will be successful if you have high agency and a keen sense of craftsmanship for yourself and others.
Most of the work we need to do is backend-oriented, but we are open to candidates from a broad set of roles (full stack, backend, QA engineers, SREs, etc.) if you meet our requirements.
What you’ll do
- Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal/high-level oversight and a high level of ownership
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new 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
- Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
- Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting Truework’s significant scale
- Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team
What you bring
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent education/training)
- Proficiency in Python and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks)
- Experience developing RESTful APIs
- Strong communication and 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, home office stipend
