# Engineering Manager, Mortgage

**Company:** [Checkr](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/checkr)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $233k – $274k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** tdd, pair programming, agile methodologies, service architecture, System Design, lean software development, Machine Learning, artificial intelligence
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Leads the Mortgage Verifications engineering team, setting technical vision, scaling architecture, partnering with product, and developing people. Requires substantial engineering and management experience, systems design expertise, and experience with highly regulated products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive the team’s technical vision and motivate the team through its next stage.
- Partner closely with product management to build new features and enhance existing ones.
- Reduce technical debt and sustainably scale the architecture.
- Build customer relationships and drive results.
- Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations.
- Hire strong talent and continue raising the team’s bar.
- Represent the team in planning and product meetings.
- Optimize engineering processes and policies to improve velocity and quality.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as an engineering manager.
- 8+ years of experience as an engineer.
- Strong critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Experience managing quality incidents as both a technical lead and communication lead.
- Experience working on products at scale, including the data, legal, human-impact, and technical nuances of highly regulated products.
- Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies.
- Deep understanding of service architecture, system design, and lean software development principles.
- Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly and thoughtfully.
- Ability to develop inclusive teams that foster growth and diversity.
- Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn.
- An action-oriented mindset, resilience through ambiguity, and ownership of meaningful outcomes.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with machine learning and artificial intelligence.

## Compensation and Benefits
- **On-target earnings or base salary:** $233,000–$274,000 USD for San Francisco, CA.
- Competitive cash and equity compensation with advancement opportunities.
- Learning and development allowance.
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- In-office perks including meals, commuter stipend, snacks, and beverages.
- Relocation stipend may be available for relocation to a Checkr hub location.
- Employees are expected to work from the office three or more days per week.

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