Engineering Manager, MVR

About the Role

The MVR team builds the systems behind driver record checks — one of Checkr’s highest-volume screening products, relied on by transportation, gig economy, and logistics companies to make fast, confident hiring decisions for millions of candidates each year. The portfolio spans standard MVR, Continuous MVR (ongoing driver monitoring), Commercial MVR, and DOT compliance tools including CDLIS and the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse, covering all 51 DMV jurisdictions across the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

As Engineering Manager for MVR, you’ll own a product surface where the work is felt directly: improving the stability and speed of a screening product candidates move through every day, and expanding Continuous MVR and commercial capabilities that give customers greater confidence in their driver hiring programs.

What you’ll do

• Lead and develop the MVR engineering team — setting technical direction, driving performance conversations, and building the hiring pipeline to grow and strengthen the team
• Own the reliability and accuracy of MVR’s supply chain across 51+ jurisdictions — a complex integration environment where each DMV has unique failure modes, data formats, and uptime characteristics
• Drive improvements in observability, reliability, and system resiliency to minimize customer impact when issues emerge
• Partner with Product to define and execute the MVR roadmap, including Continuous MVR and Commercial MVR capabilities that serve Checkr’s enterprise and transportation accounts
• Drive technical strategy for a complex third-party integration landscape — balancing near-term reliability improvements with longer-term architecture investments that scale coverage and reduce operational toil
• Lead the team’s adoption of AI-assisted development practices — helping engineers move faster while maintaining the quality guardrails that a regulated, safety-critical product requires
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Operations to navigate DOT regulatory requirements and ensure data accuracy across all jurisdictions
• Represent MVR in cross-functional planning — acting as the engineering voice on team capabilities, constraints, and roadmap tradeoffs with Product and Engineering leadership 

What you bring

• 4+ years as an engineering manager, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams
• 8+ years as a software engineer, with strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design
• Experience managing complex third-party integration environments — you’re comfortable owning reliability across systems you don’t fully control, and know how to structure teams and processes around that reality
• A track record of improving operational metrics — reducing incident frequency, improving detection time, or shipping reliability improvements in high-stakes production environments
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools — you understand how to help your team adopt these responsibly and can reason about the tradeoffs between velocity and quality they introduce
• Experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non-negotiable
• Strong incident management skills — you can lead both the technical response and the stakeholder communication when things go wrong
• Ability to make prioritization decisions quickly, with a clear framework for balancing short-term reliability work against longer-term product investments
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders — Product, Operations, Compliance, and senior leadership
• A genuine investment in developing people — through career conversations, stretch assignments, and creating conditions for engineers to grow
• Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
• 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 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

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 2 to 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch four times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. 

One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

The base salary range for this role is $233,000 to $274,000 in San Francisco, CA.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.