Sobre esta vaga de Senior Software Engineer - Platform Eng na Checkr - Chile
About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.
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 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
As a Senior Software Engineer within Checkr's Platform Engineering group, you will drive initiatives to enhance how your team builds, maintains, and delivers services, partnering with stakeholders across other Checkr teams. Your role will be instrumental in defining best practices and creating pathways that help your team deliver efficient, robust software solutions.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain the software services and systems that power Checkr's platform, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical approaches and drive engineering best practices.
- Depending on team placement, contribute to developer-experience work spanning AgentForge (Checkr's platform for engineering agents), CI/CD, and other developer tooling and workflows (DevX), or to core backend services for Checkr's screening and verification platform (Core Services).
- Participate in architectural discussions — writing and reviewing ADRs/RFCs — to align your team on system design decisions.
- Provide feedback and consultation on system design and workflows to improve reliability and performance.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and advocate for engineering initiatives with team and cross-team stakeholders.
- Lead projects typically scoped to less than a quarter, handling low ambiguity with minimal direction — often guiding other engineers through cross-functional work.
- Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to a collaborative, supportive team culture.
Who You Are/What You Bring
- 6+ years of software development experience
- Advanced English skills (You will report to a US-based manager, and all technical interviews will be conducted by our US engineering team).
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Ruby, or a similar object-oriented language, with experience building microservices
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- Strong sense of ownership and a proactive attitude
- You thrive in environments where sharing knowledge is a core value and are motivated by helping your team and close collaborators align around a shared approach
- You excel in collaboration, mentorship, and innovative problem-solving
- 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.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
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. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.
What We Offer
- A collaborative and fast-moving environment
- Be part of an international company based in the United States
- $3,000 USD per year learning and development reimbursement allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off
At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages.
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.
*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., [email protected] or [email protected]).
