Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Sr Software Engineer at Checkr, you will play a crucial role in advancing our product on our mission to build the data platform of the future. Throughout the product development lifecycle, you will collaborate with other engineers and product counterparts to design and deliver new platform capabilities and key product initiatives. Your passion for technical excellence will drive progress in modernizing our tech stack, simplifying system architecture, and automating manual workflows to ensure the scalability and efficiency of our platform.

What you'll do:

• Develop new platform capabilities and product offerings, from design through launch.
• Balance speed to market with long-term growth, designing with foresight and building for the present.
• Collaborate with the Product department to define appropriately sized initiatives and shape a roadmap that meets business needs quarter over quarter.
• Preserve customer goodwill by ensuring system availability, participating in on-call rotations, addressing support requests, and taking preventive measures to improve reliability.
• Provide guidance to junior engineers on the team and across the organization.
• Play an active role in the continuous improvement of the engineering organization through lunch discussions, team presentations, and reviews with senior leadership.

What you bring:

• Advanced English proficiency (non-negotiable requirement). To apply, please attach your CV in English.
• 5+ years of backend software development experience with strong proficiency in Ruby (preferred), Golang, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals, such as relational and non-relational databases, data structures, algorithms, and REST APIs.
• Proficiency in React.
• Experience in domain modeling, object design, and system architecture.
• Proven experience writing clear, tested, and concise code.
• Competence in setting expectations and making informed decisions through project estimates based on available information.
• Ability to draft and review technical proposals, providing constructive feedback and articulating trade-offs.
• Strong sense of accountability across all aspects of the development lifecycle, including incident response and ownership of product robustness.
• Desire to collaborate and share knowledge with peers, both within the team and across the organization.
• Enthusiasm for learning, improving, and innovating in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
• Availability to work in a hybrid arrangement at our Santiago office. 3 days in office and 2 days working from home.
• 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.