# 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:** Ai Adoption, System Design, Software Architecture, Production Incidents, Incident Management, Product Strategy, Quantitative Analysis, Machine Learning, APIs, Integrations, Platform Modernization, Data Compliance
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads an approximately eight-person engineering team building mortgage income and employment verification systems, including APIs, integrations, AI/ML models, and customer-facing products. The role requires substantial engineering and management experience, architecture judgment, incident leadership, and experience with regulated products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own delivery and technical direction for the Mortgage Verifications team as it scales its self-serve verification product.
- Drive team-level AI adoption with guardrails, baselines, and measured impact.
- Co-own product direction with the product manager by shaping problems and creating alignment.
- Lead platform modernization while shipping features in a highly regulated, high-stakes domain.
- Manage production incidents as technical and communications lead.
- Grow engineers’ careers, support promotions, and identify development paths.
- Hire senior and staff-level engineering talent.
- Represent team priorities and progress to product and executive stakeholders using data and sound methodology.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience rolling out AI adoption across an engineering team with measured baselines and guardrails.
- Quantitative fluency, including explaining metrics, methodologies, and baselines behind business-impact claims.
- Experience co-owning product direction and partnering productively with Product.
- Experience managing production incidents in systems at scale.
- Experience with regulated, high-stakes products where data accuracy and compliance matter, such as fintech, healthcare, or identity.
- Strong system design and architecture judgment.
- Track record of developing engineers and building inclusive, high-functioning teams.
- Comfort with ambiguity, feedback, and rapid change.
- Strong ownership, bias for action, resilience, and urgency.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: **$233,000–$274,000 USD** for San Francisco, CA.
- Competitive cash and equity compensation.
- Learning and development allowance.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
- Flexible PTO.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Office perks including meals, commuter stipend, snacks, and beverages.
- Relocation stipend may be available.
- Expected to work from the office 3+ days per week.

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