Engineering Manager, Verifications

About the role

The Verifications team is responsible for a broad portfolio of screening products that empower informed decisions across Checkr's enterprise customers. Key responsibilities include employment and education verifications, drug and occupational health screenings, reference checks, and right-to-work screenings. These products must adapt to the diverse compliance and screening needs of various industries and regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• 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 required by a regulated, data-sensitive product.
• Represent Verifications in cross-functional planning, serving as the engineering voice on team capacity, tradeoffs, and roadmap sequencing with Product, Compliance, and Engineering leadership.

Requirements

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
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
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
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

Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent experience

Skills

Service architecture
Distributed systems
System design
Third-party integration management
Operational metrics improvement
AI-assisted development
Incident management
Communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

Learning and development allowance
Competitive cash and equity 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

Pay

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA): $233,000—$274,000 USD
On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO): $197,000—$232,000 USD

Schedule

Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliant benefits are offered to full-time employees. Employees are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. In-office perks include lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.