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# Engineering Manager - Data Acquisition LiveCheck at Checkr - Chile

- **Company:** Checkr - Chile
- **Location:** Santiago Región Metropolitana, Chile
- **Compensation:** CLP 830k–CLP 976k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chile/jobs/8148556

## Job description

## 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](https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/) and is a Y Combinator 2024 [Breakthrough Company](https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-2024).

Checkr is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Data Acquisition LiveChek team. This team is responsible for supporting and expanding the largest US national criminal database. This database supports all Checkrs products and clients. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire the tech ops team to meet company objectives.

What You’ll Do:

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

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](https://checkr.com/company/careers).

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago, Chile) $82.952.900—$97.590.000 CLP

## 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](http://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Document/FCO%20Art.%2049%20Official%20Notice%20to%20print%202017.pdf).

*Legitimate Checkr emails will always include our official domain name after the @ symbol (e.g., name@checkr.com or name@ext.checkr.com).

## About Checkr - Chile

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Checkr builds an AI-powered verification platform that enables safe and fair background checks and identity decisions for hiring, housing, and other high-stakes contexts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E; $5B valuation)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with hub offices in Denver, Nashville, and Santiago, Chile)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (multiple co-founders; often associated with Y Combinator alumni)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Background screening, identity verification, HR technology, trust & safety
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprises and SMBs (140,000+ customers including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Amazon, Anthropic)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Power safe and fair decisions” and “we’ve pioneered fair chance hiring for over a decade”

## Products & Services
- **Checkr Background Checks**: AI-driven criminal record, education, employment, and identity verification; combines automation with human experts for accuracy and compliance.
- **Checkr Verify**: Identity verification solution used for gig economy, rentals, and other on-demand services.
- **Checkr Platform/API**: Programmatic access for high-volume customers to integrate background checks into their own workflows.
- **Checkr for Good**: Program offering discounted or pro bono screenings for nonprofits and social enterprises.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $5B (Series E, highly profitable per company careers page)
- **Key Metric**: $500M+ annual revenue; 140,000+ customers; 100M+ people verified per year
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (2024 Breakthrough Company), Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list; investors include prominent VCs (specific names not listed in provided sources)
- **Growth Signals**: Highly profitable with $500M+ revenue; expanding internationally with engineering hub in Santiago, Chile; recognized on Forbes Cloud 100; strong offer acceptance rate (81%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first verification**: Proprietary AI models combined with human review to deliver speed (97% of customers report faster turnaround than previous vendor) and accuracy.
- **Fair chance hiring focus**: Deep expertise in compliance with fair chance ordinances (e.g., San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance) and a mission-driven approach that differentiates from traditional background check vendors.
- **Scale and trust**: Trusted by some of the largest platforms (Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Amazon) and used for 100M+ verifications annually.
- **Data platform moat**: Builds and operates data pipelines that extract data from hundreds of government and third-party sources, creating a defensible infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **International expansion**: Establishing engineering hubs in Santiago, Chile and other locations to tap global talent and support 24/7 operations.
- **Platform evolution**: Continuing to invest in AI and data acquisition platforms to improve accuracy, speed, and compliance for high-stakes decisions.
- **Product diversification**: Expanding beyond background checks into identity verification and other trust & safety use cases (e.g., housing, rideshare, childcare).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, problem-solving environment; “If you want a comfortable seat, you’re in the wrong place” – emphasizes ownership and impact.
- **Hybrid/Remote**: Hybrid model with 3+ days per week in office at hub locations (San Francisco, Denver, Nashville, Santiago). In Santiago, office perks include lunch five times a week, commuter stipend, snacks.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% covered medical, dental, vision for employees and dependents
  - $3,000/year learning stipend
  - 1-month paid sabbatical every 3 years
  - Equity ownership for all full-time employees
  - 401(k) with company match
  - Generous parental leave and family planning support
  - Mental health coaching
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on Python, distributed systems, and data pipelines; on-call rotations; mentorship opportunities; AI-first mindset encouraged.
- **Recognition**: Three years on Built In’s Best Places to Work; Forbes Cloud 100 2025.

## Sources
1. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers) – Careers page with company overview, benefits, and mission
2. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers/open-careers) – Open positions listing (Santiago, Chile)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chile/jobs/7968099) – Senior Software Engineer job posting for Santiago (details on salary, responsibilities, culture)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkr-com) – LinkedIn company page (active job postings, operations)

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