Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Check, a company revolutionizing payroll, and become a key member of our engineering team. We're building a cloud-native payroll platform using Python, Django, React, and other modern technologies. You will actively contribute to solving complex engineering challenges, build prototypes, provide constructive feedback, and mentor your team. This role requires experience with complex systems, debugging, and setting technical strategies. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including health insurance, parental leave, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Experience with staff level ownership and impact across an organization
• Experience building complex systems (or within a regulated industry) that have scaled and changed over time
• Resiliency solving highly ambiguous problem or creating structure for collaboration
• Proficient in debugging complex systems and handling critical incidents
• Experience setting a technical strategy across teams
• Proficiency in Python or Go

Responsibilities

• Actively make Check better by working hands-on with our gnarliest problems across engineering teams
• Build prototypes for creative solutions to fail fast and expedite future development
• Share hot takes and candid, constructive feedback on ways we make our team or platform better
• Coach your team by building genuine connections, embracing vulnerability, and working transparently
• Simplify how and what we’re building by shaping the system’s architecture
• Role model clear, critical thinking through code, written proposals, or diagrams that illuminate problems and set direction
• Architect and build scalable systems and services within our mono-repo, while taking ownership of end-to-end delivery from design to deployment

Preferred Qualifications

Django, React or Typescript

Benefits

• Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage
• Stock options
• Flexible PTO and sick leave
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Flexible return-to-work
• 9 annual holidays
• A 401k retirement plan
• A $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses