Job Overview

Job Title Engineering Manager
Hiring Organization Check
Company Website https://www.checkhq.com/
Remote Locations US
Job Type Remote, Full-Time

Check is leading a revolution in the payroll industry. Payroll is the backbone of the US economy, and yet it has not undergone significant innovation in decades. We invented the embedded payroll space to change that (see: Check: Solving the $150 Billion Payroll Problem, Bank On It; Episode 438), both for the business owners who spend countless hours per week running payroll and for the millions of Americans who depend on their next paycheck. At Check, our mission is to empower the most innovative software platforms to create new payroll businesses, and enable those businesses to transform the way companies pay their employees.

Check’s culture is intensely caring: to each other as teammates, to our partners, and to the businesses and workers we serve. Our teams are made up of creative problem solvers and empathetic cross-functional collaborators who can simplify the complexities of payroll. We bring hustle and grit to our day-to-day, while building enduring solutions and relationships.

At Check, we value transparency and trust. It’s important to us that every employee and candidate feels confident that they’ll be treated (and compensated) fairly on our team. The engineering team specifically operates on a flat titling system, meaning everyone is either a Software Engineer or an Engineering Manager. We structure our titles this way to maximize equity, inclusion and opportunity within our team, and to minimize seniority bias. We want all engineers, regardless of job level, to feel empowered to lead projects they’re passionate about and to collaborate with their fellow Checketeers as equals.

To that end, we will consider candidates with a variety of backgrounds and levels of expertise for this role, and we will determine the appropriate job level for each candidate based on their unique experience and qualifications. The expected annual salary for this role is between $210,000 and $230,000.

In the US, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage to all full-time employees, effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents and flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. Benefits may vary outside the US.

Job Responsibilities

Lead a team of talented engineers to deliver a robust and compliant payroll infrastructure platform that supports Check and enables our partners’ products as they scale
Build teams that execute at a high level of technical excellence and velocity, and grow our most senior engineers into force multipliers
Build new engineering capacity that appropriately leverages engineering spend for continued maintenance of our payroll systems
Drive prioritization against high-impact vs high-importance initiatives
Translate the impact of core foundational investments to cross-functional teams
Spearhead engineering-wide initiatives
Shape our system architecture with a technical and product vision
Partner with other leaders across functions to build and execute against roadmaps
Recruit, coach, and develop engineers that exemplify our shared value

Job Requirements

Hands-on experience scaling critical software platforms with low fault tolerance
6+ years of overall software development experience
2+ years of engineering management experience
Experience building motivated, distributed teams that tackle challenging technical problems
A record of growing individuals into strong engineering leaders
Thrived in highly cross-functional organizations
Comfort navigating ambiguity: capable of establishing prioritization frameworks and identifying the right work to meet business outcomes
Experience making business level decisions and evaluating tradeoffs
Willingness and ability to travel approximately one work week per quarter
Willingness and ability to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the Fall