Staff Software Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $228k - $264k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

💰 $75M Series C - Check on 2022-02

Fintech • SaaS • API

Check is a payroll infrastructure company that provides embedded payroll APIs and SaaS tools for platforms and businesses. It supplies the technology, operations, and support to build and scale payroll products — including money movement, tax calculation and filing, real-time payments, benefits and 401(k) integrations, workers’ compensation, fraud protection, and developer tools like an MCP and CLI. Check targets platforms from startups to public companies and advertises that it processes billions annually and serves large numbers of businesses and employees.

📋 Description

• Design and build products that translate complex payroll infrastructure into intuitive tools for operators and partners • Own projects end-to-end, from identifying problems and shaping solutions through design, implementation, rollout, and iteration • Partner with product, design, and operations to understand payroll operators' and partners' workflows and challenges • Build internal and partner-facing tools improving visibility, reliability, and explainability of money movement through the payroll system • Improve workflows, architecture, and tooling for developers and operators • Communicate technical thinking through code, proposals, and diagrams • Give thoughtful feedback, mentor teammates, and help the team deliver high-quality work • Build the platform powering money movement, tax calculations, and compliance workflows for thousands of businesses

🎯 Requirements

• Staff-level ownership and delivery of production systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and operation • Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or product systems supporting complex operational workflows • Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and bring structure through thoughtful design and collaboration • Comfort debugging complex systems and investigating issues spanning multiple services or infrastructure layers • Ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineers and cross-functional partners • Experience with or desire to learn Python/Django, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, and GitHub is helpful • Eligibility to work in the United States • Must answer whether visa sponsorship will be required now or in the future

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Flexible PTO and sick leave • Generous paid parental leave for all new parents • Flexible return-to-work • 401k retirement plan • $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability coverage • Long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance coverage effective on the first day of work • Team offsites, events, and hackathons • Annual 3-day company retreat • Meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays for in-office and hybrid employees • Regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events