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title: 'Engineering Manager, Mortgage at Checkr'
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# Engineering Manager, Mortgage at Checkr

- **Company:** Checkr
- **Location:** San Francisco California, United States
- **Compensation:** $233k–$274k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/checkr/jobs/8167494

## 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, and Anthropic.

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

## About the role

Checkr’s Mortgage Verifications team builds the systems lenders use to verify income and employment for millions of mortgage applicants a year - work that sits at the intersection of consumer data, regulated financial decisions, and ML/AI-driven automation. We're mid-flight on a major evolution of our verification products, and next-generation prediction models for verification outcomes.

As Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of ~8 engineers building this platform end-to-end - from the APIs and Integrations core to the platform, to the AI/ML models that power verification decisions to the customer-facing product experience. You'll report into Mortgage engineering leadership with direct visibility to the executive leadership team, and you'll partner closely with the product team to shape what ships next. The decisions this team makes affect real people's ability to get a mortgage - the stakes and the scale are real, and so is the room to make an impact fast.

## What you'll do

- Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team as we scale our self-serve verification product through its next launch phases
- Drive team-level AI adoption - not just personal tool use, but rollout with real guardrails, baselines, and a measured effect on how the team ships
- Co-own product direction with your PM partner: shape the problem, create alignment where warranted, and don't just execute a handed-off spec
- Lead the team through platform modernization while shipping new features in a highly regulated, high-stakes domain
- Manage production incidents as both technical lead and communication lead, in a system where downtime has real business and consumer impact
- Grow your engineers' careers - including building the case for promotions and identifying where each person wants to go next
- Hire senior and staff-level engineering talent to grow the team through its next phase
- Represent the team's priorities and progress to product and executive stakeholders, with the data and methodology to back up any impact claim you make

## What you bring

- 4+ years as an engineering manager; 8+ years as an engineer
- A concrete track record of rolling out AI adoption across a team - with guardrails and a baseline you measured against, not just "I use Copilot"
- Quantitative fluency: you can explain not just the metric behind a business-impact claim you've made, but the methodology and baseline behind it
- A demonstrated pattern of co-owning product direction - shaping problems and disagreeing productively with Product - rather than taking specs and executing
- Experience managing incidents in production systems at scale, as both technical lead and communicator
- Experience working on regulated, high-stakes products where data accuracy and compliance matter (fintech, healthcare, identity, or similar) - comfort with ambiguity matters more here than process maturity from a large, established org
- Strong system design and architecture judgment; comfortable making prioritization calls with incomplete information
- A track record of growing engineers and building inclusive, high-functioning teams
- Openness to feedback and genuine curiosity - you'll be learning alongside a team that's evolving fast
- 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](https://checkr.com/company/careers).

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

## What We Offer

- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive cash and equity 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

At Checkr, we believe an in office 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](https://www.sf.gov/worker-rights-san-francisco).

Applicant Privacy Policy If you are a California resident or are located in Alberta or British Columbia, our [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://checkr.com/legal/applicant-privacy-policy) applies to our collection and processing of your personal information when you apply for a role with us or otherwise participate in our recruitment process.

*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

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Checkr is an AI-native trust and verification platform that powers safe and fair decisions for identity, background, employment, and credential verification.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Daniel Yanisse, Jonathan Perichon

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Background checks, identity verification, fraud prevention, trust and safety, HR tech, tenant screening, mortgage verification
- **Target customers**: B2B — serving over 140,000 customers across all industries and sizes, including enterprises for hiring, lenders for mortgage/income verification, property managers for tenant screening, and insurers for risk intelligence.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To power safe and fair decisions for high-stakes decisions, with a strong commitment to fair chance hiring and second chances.

## Products & Services
- **Workforce (Background Checks & Verifications for Hiring)**: The core product for employment background checks, criminal screenings, and credential verification.
- **Tenant**: Automated tenant screening for faster and fairer leasing decisions.
- **Mortgage**: Income and employment verification for lenders.
- **Trust**: Real-time risk intelligence to protect people and property.
- **Personal**: Empowering individuals to own and share their verified identity and credentials.
- **Checkr AI**: The underlying AI platform that transforms fragmented data into actionable insights, powered by the "People Data Graph" — a comprehensive identity map built from verified data linked across hundreds of millions of real identities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $5 billion (Series E)
- **Key Metric**: $500M+ annual revenue; highly profitable; 140,000+ customers; serves 100M+ people every year.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided sources, but known to include Accel, Y Combinator, and other top-tier VCs.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding beyond background checks into mortgage, tenant, and personal verification; strong AI-native positioning; 97% of customers report faster turnaround times than with previous vendors; three years on Built In's Best Places to Work.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Platform**: Checkr AI and the "People Data Graph" create a proprietary data moat that competitors cannot easily replicate, linking hundreds of millions of identities.
- **Fair Chance Hiring Leadership**: A decade of advocacy and product design around fairness creates brand trust and differentiation, especially in regulated industries.
- **Scale & Speed**: 140,000+ customers and 97% faster turnaround than previous vendors demonstrate operational excellence.
- **Mission-Driven**: Commitment to Pledge 1% (product, equity, profits toward fair chance hiring) builds a strong employer brand and attracts talent who care about social impact.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Automation**: Deep investment in AI across all teams and products — "Builders fluent in AI, curious about what's next" is a core hiring principle.
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving from a single-use background check product to a multi-use trust platform (Workforce, Tenant, Mortgage, Trust, Personal).
- **Talent Density**: Hiring strategy optimizes for "talent density" — every hire raises the average. This creates a high-performance culture.
- **Fraud Prevention**: Addressing the growing fraud landscape with real-time risk intelligence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-performance, mission-driven, AI-native. The company explicitly states: "If you want a comfortable seat, you're in the wrong place." They hire for values, believing everything else is teachable.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Hybrid with offices in San Francisco, Denver, Nashville, and Santiago, Chile. Many roles are remote within the US.
- **Compensation & Benefits**:
    - 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered for employees; majority for dependents.
    - Equity for every full-time employee ("Every full-time employee is an owner").
    - $3,000/yr learning stipend.
    - 1-month paid sabbatical every 3 years.
    - Generous fully paid parental leave plus fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
    - Flexible time off.
    - 401(k) plan.
    - Wellness stipend (gym, fitness, etc.).
    - Commuter benefits (monthly stipend for transit/parking).
    - Mental health & coaching resources.
- **Engineering Culture**: AI-native, high bar for talent. Engineering is the largest hiring department. Roles include Staff AI Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, AI Conversation Designer.
- **Offer Acceptance Rate**: 81% from final round to offer; <48 hour response time from final round to offer — indicating a fast, efficient process.

## Sources
1. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company)
2. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers)
3. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/company/careers/open-careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkr-com)
5. [checkr.com](https://checkr.com/)

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