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Check

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51-200

New York, NY, USA

About the job

Overview:

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.
Check is hiring a full stack engineer to expand our embedded payroll platform: the intuitive APIs, delightful UIs, and product-backed services that simplify creating, growing, and running a payroll business for our partners. This is the perfect role for an engineer who wants to have an outsized business impact. Our technical stack includes Python, Django, React, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS.
In this role, you will:

Scope, develop, and lead large technical projects with significant business impact
Build tools that support and automate complex payroll workflows for our partners and internal teams
Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
Use data-driven analysis to identify opportunities to achieve our business goals
Provide input on product and strategic decision-making

You may be a fit for this role if you:

Have a strong product/user orientation
Focus on iterative value delivery
Have led projects that simplify complex concepts through software
Enjoy navigating ambiguity and making decisions independently
Have interest in designing both frontend UIs and backend APIs
Love working with cross-functional stakeholders

We use:

Python (type-annotated) and Django for our API
React and TypeScript for our frontends
Postgres for our database
AWS for our cloud infrastructure
GitLab for issue tracking and CI/CD

What we offer:
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.