Hiring: Engineering Manager, Verifications Company: Checkr, Inc. Location: Denver, CO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 13:05:50 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Systems Design About the job Experience: •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 Required Skills: •Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team — setting technical direction, driving performance and career development conversations, and building a hiring pipeline that strengthens the team over time •Own the reliability and quality of a broad portfolio of fulfillment integrations — partnering closely with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction, improve turnaround times, and minimize candidate and customer impact when issues arise •Partner with Product to define and execute the roadmap across employment, education, drug and health, and compliance products — translating customer and regulatory requirements into clear engineering priorities •Drive technical strategy for scaling a complex, integration-heavy system — making deliberate architecture decisions that improve coverage, reduce manual exceptions, and build toward a more automated and consistent verification experience •Lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted development practices — helping engineers move faster while maintaining the quality and accuracy standards that a regulated, data-sensitive product requires •Represent Verifications in cross-functional planning — serving as the engineering voice on team capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing with Product, Compliance, and Engineering leadership Qualifications: •A track record of improving operational metrics — reducing incident frequency, improving detection time, or shipping reliability improvements in high-stakes production environments •Operational 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 •Strong incident management skills — you can lead both the technical response and the stakeholder communication when things go wrong •Demonstrated capacity 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 •On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA) Compensation: •Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!