# Senior Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Checkr](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/checkr)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $257k – $302k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, Go, Python, Cloud Technologies, Microservices, Asynchronous Queueing, Data Pipelines, Domain-Driven Design
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Leads organization-wide technical architecture initiatives, including international expansion and enterprise systems, with hands-on coding in high-risk areas. Requires 15+ years engineering experience, 5+ in leadership, expertise in Ruby/Go/Python, microservices, and data pipelines.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Proactively identify the top opportunities for impact for the engineering organization
- Own direction and lead execution of organization-wide technical efforts
- Hands-on contribution in areas with a high degree of business risk
- Break down very complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
- Create documents to set standards of architectural best practices that the broader engineering organization consumes
- Upskill the Staff Engineers in the company to systematically raise the bar for quality and scale
- Inform buy vs build decisions, supporting broad business strategy
- Deeply understand customer, partner, and product team needs, and represent your teams in technical conversations with company leadership

## What you bring

- Degree in computer science or related field (**Bachelor's or Master's**)
- **2+ years** leading architecture projects across an organization
- **5+ years** of experience in a leadership role
- **15+ years** of experience as a software engineer
- Experience developing in **Ruby**, **GoLang**, and **Python**
- Solid understanding of **cloud technologies** and all layers of backend stacks
- Deep understanding of **microservices** design and **asynchronous queueing models**
- Experience designing and maintaining **real-time & batch processing data pipelines** serving up billions of data points
- Experience mentoring engineering and product teams in **domain-driven design**
- Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams
- Strong collaboration, communication, and project management skills
- A strong sense of ownership
- A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate

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