# Tech Lead Manager

**Company:** [Check](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/check)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $214k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, React, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, GitHub, AI
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Lead and mentor a small engineering team while hands-on building scalable payroll and financial infrastructure systems. Drive roadmap and workflow improvements in partnership with product and operations.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Scale systems that power payroll calculations, tax payments, and filings as volume and complexity increase
- Design services that move and reconcile money across parties, while making results clear and traceable for partners
- Support new businesses as they migrate large employer bases onto Check's infrastructure
- Use AI to automate complex operational workflows, such as tax notice triage and reducing manual employer setup work

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building complex software and delivering production systems end-to-end
- 1-2 years of experience leading or managing a team
- Desire to continue being hands-on and building with your team
- Track record of driving business outcomes as well as upleveling IC engineers around you
- Passion for improving engineering workflows and experimenting with AI

## Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with Python/Django, React, Typescript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, Github

## Compensation & Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on your first day of work
- Flexible PTO and sick leave - 9 company holidays, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for new parents with flexible return-to-work
- 401k retirement plan
- $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses
- Base salary ranges:
  - San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle: $225,000 - $247,500
  - All other US locations: $214,000 - $235,400

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