Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Check|Remote (United States) • United StatesRemoteHybridfull_timestaff

$214,000 – $247,500 USD

Tech Stack

Solid badges = required, outlined = preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve the systems that power every payroll run, including infrastructure for moving money, calculating taxes, and ensuring reliable payroll at scale.
  • Address scaling and reliability challenges across the platform, improving how systems behave with partner and payroll volume growth.
  • Simplify infrastructure and architecture by identifying bottlenecks, reducing operational complexity, and making systems easier to understand.
  • Improve how engineers build and ship software by strengthening CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling.
  • Take ownership of key technical outcomes from initial design through production rollout and ongoing operation.

Soft Skills

Systems DesignProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingMentoring

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Dental
  • Disability Insurance
  • Equity
  • Flexible Hours
  • Flexible PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Vision

Culture

Cross-Functional TeamsBlameless PostmortemsTech TalksHack Days/HackathonsMission-DrivenTransparent LeadershipRemote WorkHybrid WorkFlexible HoursPay TransparencyInclusive Hiring

Requirements

Regions: Us

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About Check
Industry: fintech
Size: small

Check is a startup that invents embedded payroll, enabling partners to build and scale their own payroll businesses by providing reliable, scalable, and secure API infrastructure for moving money and delivering paychecks.

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Compensation
Base salary: $214,000 – $247,500 USD
Equity: stock options