Check is hiring a

Software Engineer

San Francisco, United States
Remote

Building at Check

At Check, we make paying people simple. In doing that, we’re not just building our own business— we’re building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we’re redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch, grow, and thrive. Check out the full story | Tune in.

Check is far more than just API infrastructure. We’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Our Team

Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team that’s as passionate as you are! At Check, you'll use creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and grit to impact every business we build. We view problems to solve and jobs to be done as opportunities to contribute to the solution; we ignore conventional role boundaries in favor of the unique strengths and value each builder brings to our team and to our mission.

Join us if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Let’s simplify the complex, make a real impact, and create a better future for businesses of every size.

Check is hiring a full stack engineer to expand our embedded payroll platform: the intuitive APIs, delightful UIs, and product-backed services that simplify creating, growing, and running a payroll business for our partners. This is the perfect role for an engineer who wants to have an outsized business impact. Our technical stack includes Python, Django, React, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS.

In this role, you will:

  • Scope, develop, and lead large technical projects with significant business impact
  • Build tools that support and automate complex payroll workflows for our partners and internal teams
  • Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
  • Use data-driven analysis to identify opportunities to achieve our business goals
  • Provide input on product and strategic decision-making

You may be a fit for this role if you:

  • Have a strong product/user orientation
  • Focus on iterative value delivery
  • Have led projects that simplify complex concepts through software
  • Enjoy navigating ambiguity and making decisions independently
  • Have interest in designing both frontend UIs and backend APIs
  • Love working with cross-functional stakeholders

We use:

  • Python (type-annotated) and Django for our API
  • React and TypeScript for our frontends
  • Postgres for our database
  • AWS for our cloud infrastructure
  • GitLab for issue tracking and CI/CD

What we offer: 

At Check, transparency and fairness in compensation are our top priorities. Operating on a flat titling system, our engineering team ensures equity and opportunity for all team members. We believe in empowering engineers, irrespective of their job level, to lead projects they're passionate about and collaborate as equals with their fellow Checketeers. Candidates are assessed based on their unique experience and qualifications, with the expected annual salary/hourly rate varying by job level and location:

  • The expected range in San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle is between $168,900 and $213,290. 
  • The expected range For all other locations is between $143,550 and $181,297. 

Full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, stock options, flexible PTO, parental leave, holidays, a 401k plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.

Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected] with “accommodations” in the subject line.

Check participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S. Check does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

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