Check Technologies - Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
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Requirements
• Experience working in startup environments where engineers own infrastructure as well as product systems. • startup environments • Experience designing and operating complex systems that have scaled or evolved significantly over time. • complex systems that have scaled or evolved • Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD systems. • Strong systems design skills and a track record of building reliable, maintainable services. • Comfort debugging complex production issues and improving systems through thoughtful simplification. • complex production issues • thoughtful simplification • Proficiency in Python (experience with TypeScript or React is a plus). • Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous technical problems and help teams align on practical solutions. • ambiguous technical problems
Responsibilities
• Design and evolve the systems that power every payroll run, the infrastructure responsible for moving money, calculating taxes, and ensuring payroll runs reliably at scale. • Run at scaling and reliability challenges across our platform, improving how systems behave as our partners and payroll volumes grow. • Simplify infrastructure and architecture over time by identifying bottlenecks, reducing operational complexity, and making systems easier for engineers to reason about. • Improve how engineers build and ship software by strengthening CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling across the platform. • Take ownership of key technical outcomes from initial design through production rollout and ongoing operation. • Work with leaders during company planning cycles to discuss technical improvements we need to make • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to deliver technical solutions that unlock new product capabilities. • Work in the open by sharing context, writing clear technical proposals, and helping teams align around thoughtful solutions. • Raise the engineering bar by mentoring teammates, sharing knowledge, and helping the team build systems we’re proud to operate. • Our Stack • Our Stack • Python / Django for our API • React and TypeScript for our frontends • AWS and Terraform for our cloud infrastructure • Temporal for workflow orchestration • GitHub for issue tracking and CI/CD
Benefits
• For full-time employees, Check offers stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for new parents, flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401 (k) retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. We also provide high-quality medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on your first day of work. • At Check, transparency and fairness in compensation are our top priorities: our compensation bands are visible to all employees across all roles. The actual annual salary for this role is dependent on each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and work location: • In San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle, the expected range is between $200,000 and $247,500. • For all other locations, the expected range is between $180,000 and $235,400. • We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline. • Travel and Office Policy • This role can be remote, hybrid, or based in one of our offices in New York City or San Francisco. The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we welcome remote work, personal time is valuable and important. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! All employees must be willing to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the spring. • For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours, game nights, etc. • Remote work at Check requires the ability to perform all responsibilities without distraction or disruption, while maintaining quality, effective communication, and productivity.
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