Engineering Manager, Verifications

About the role

The Verifications team is responsible for a suite 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 across 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, 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.

Skills

• Service architecture
• Distributed systems
• System design
• Third-party integration management
• Operational metrics improvement
• AI-assisted development
• Incident management
• Communication with stakeholders
• Team development and mentorship
• Prioritization and decision-making

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

• In-office 3+ days a week

What We Offer

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• 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

Equal Employment Opportunity

Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.