Engineering Manager, Growth & Experimentation

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.

We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.

About the Role

Checkr is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Checkr Growth team. This team is hyper-focused on Checkr’s self-serve business delivering products and capabilities for Checkr’s growth funnel: Acquisition, Activation, Expansion & Retention. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire the engineering team to meet company objectives and bring new products and features to market.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team to work on growth-focused initiatives such as increasing self-service customer conversions, improving the onboarding experience, creating engagement loops, and expanding product usage across segments.

• Lead test experimentation across multiple surfaces to unlock incremental business value while improving customer experience

• Drive technical vision for the team that motivates and excites the team for the next chapter

• Partner closely with product management to build new features and enhance existing ones

• Work with the team to reduce technical debt and sustainably scale our architecture

• Build relationships with cross-functional teams and drive results with them

• Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations

• Hire best of the talent and continue to raise the bar for the team

• Represent the team in planning and product meetings

• Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality

What you bring

• 4+ years as an engineering manager

• 8+ years as an engineer

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem-solving, and attention to detail

• Experience managing quality incidents as both a technical lead and communication lead

• Experience working on products at scale, and understanding the data, legal, human impact, and technical nuances of supporting highly regulated products

• Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies

• Deep understanding of service architecture and system design as well as lean software development principles

• Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly and thoughtfully

• Backbone to make tough decisions when necessary

• Able to develop inclusive teams to foster growth and diversity

• Ready to mentor the team to grow by providing stretch assignments and opportunities relevant to their interests

• Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn

• 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

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

Pay Transparency Disclosure

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. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website.

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)
$233,000—$274,000 USD

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO)
$197,000—$232,000 USD

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. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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