Staff Software Engineer

🕒 July 27

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $228k - $264k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

👻 Ghost score 9%

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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

• Run at complex problems across our platform • Own projects end-to-end, from identifying the problem and shaping the solution • Be a true partner to product, design, and operations • Build internal and partner-facing tools that improve visibility, reliability, and explainability • Reduce friction in our systems by improving workflows, architecture, and tooling • Role model clear, critical thinking through code, proposals, and diagrams • Raise the quality bar by working in the open and giving thoughtful feedback

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with staff-level ownership and delivery of production systems end-to-end • Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or product systems • Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and bring structure through thoughtful design and collaboration • Comfort debugging complex systems and investigating issues that span multiple services or infrastructure layers • Ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineers and cross-functional partners • Experience with Python/Django, React, Typescript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, Github is helpful

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • High-quality medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage