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 products include employment and education verifications, drug and occupational health screenings, reference checks, and right-to-work screenings. These products must adapt to various compliance and screening requirements in different industries and regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Verifications engineering team, setting technical direction and driving performance and career development conversations.
• Own the reliability and quality of a broad portfolio of fulfillment integrations, partnering with vendors and internal stakeholders to reduce friction and improve turnaround times.
• Partner with Product to define and execute the roadmap for 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, comfortable owning reliability across systems you don't fully control, and knowing how to structure teams and processes around that reality.
• A 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, understanding how to help your team adopt these responsibly and reasoning about the tradeoffs between velocity and quality they introduce.
• Experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non-negotiable.
• Strong incident management skills, able to 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, including Product, Operations, Compliance, and senior leadership.
• A genuine investment in developing people through career conversations, stretch assignments, and creating conditions for engineers to grow.
• Ambitious mindset with a strong bias for action, raising the bar, moving with urgency, staying resilient through ambiguity, and delivering meaningful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex third-party integration environments, ensuring reliability across systems you don't fully control.
• Strong command of service architecture, distributed systems, and system design.
• Experience working on regulated products where data accuracy and legal compliance are non-negotiable.
• Strong incident management skills, able to lead both the technical response and the stakeholder communication when things go wrong.
• Ability to make prioritization decisions quickly, balancing short-term reliability work against longer-term product investments.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A genuine investment in developing people through career conversations, stretch assignments, and creating conditions for engineers to grow.
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action, raising the bar, moving with urgency, staying resilient through ambiguity, and delivering meaningful outcomes.

Skills

• Service architecture
• Distributed systems
• System design
• Third-party integration environments
• Operational metrics improvement
• Incident management
• Communication skills
• Development practices
• Regulated product development
• AI-assisted development

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

A fast-paced and collaborative environment, with individuals 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.