Senior Software Engineer (Python), Mortgage

About the Role

Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment and income information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more. We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents, with a better product and intense customer focus. Within Checkr, Truework operates independently, allowing rapid iteration while also leveraging the strengths and assets from our core business. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Truework team, you will help develop and maintain the platform used by 8 of the top 10 mortgage lenders in the U.S.

At Checkr, Engineers take ownership and responsibility for all aspects of product development—from leading projects and working with product managers and customers to define and implement features, to collaborating with sales and marketing teams on launching and scaling products. You’ll have significant autonomy and will thrive if you have high agency and a keen sense of craftsmanship for yourself and others. Most of the work is backend-oriented, but we are open to candidates from a broad set of roles (full stack, backend, QA engineers, SREs, etc.) if you meet our requirements.

Responsibilities

• Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal/high-level oversight and a high level of ownership
• Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset—collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
• Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features
• Adopt an experimentation mindset—autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
• Maintain a quality mindset—insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
• Apply an analytical mindset—instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
• Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting Truework’s significant scale
• Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent education/training)
• Proficiency in Python and JavaScript (or similar languages/frameworks)
• Experience developing RESTful APIs
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
• A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders
• An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun

Benefits

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive 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 and home office stipend
• In-office perks: lunch five times a week, commuter stipend, snacks, and beverages
• Relocation stipend available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location (Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; or Santiago, Chile)

Pay

On-target earnings or base salary range (San Francisco, CA): $185,000 – $218,000 USD. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles. If this role is remote, the top and bottom of the range are listed, but the target range for an exact location will be specified during recruiting discussions.

Schedule

Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. Checkr’s hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile.