About Checkr
Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. We've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. Established in 2014, Checkr puts modern technology powered by machine learning in the hands of hiring teams, helping to hire great new people with an experience that’s fast, smooth, and safe. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2024 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Checkr is looking for a Software Engineer II to help us bring fair background checks to the enterprise customers. Our work is the backbone of employing millions of workers across the country.
Our team’s mission is to provide the most accurate and comprehensive criminal records in the industry by leveraging the latest advancements in scraping technologies and techniques to extract data from any type of endpoint including websites, APIs, PDFs, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Build and evolve software for large scale web scraping operations.
- Research and develop techniques and technology to bypass anti-bot services.
- Design and improve the system architecture of data acquisition.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for our technology.
- Recommend the best technologies to craf the technology strategy.
- Help define and lead cross-functional initiatives.
- Mentor and guide other software developers in the scraping department.
- Create documentation about techniques, applications and good software practices.
What you bring:
- 3+ years of full-stack software development experience.
- Experience with web scraping.
- Proficiency in the following languages: Python, Java, C#, Javascript, HTML, CSS, HTTP protocols, SQL.
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as relational databases, data structure and algorithms, Object Relational Mapping, REST APIs, microservices, Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, functional and object oriented programming.
- A strong sense of ownership.
- Ability to collaborate with teammates and other stakeholders.
- An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun.
What you get
- 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
- Home office stipend
One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. The salary range for this role is $??? to $???.
Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Checkr believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.
Checkr also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Checkr’s commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.