# Senior Software Engineer , Mortgage

**Company:** [Checkr](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/checkr)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $185k – $218k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, REST APIs, Software Development, API Development
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Senior Software Engineer building and scaling the backend platform for employment and income verification used by top mortgage lenders. Requires 5+ years experience, Python/JavaScript proficiency, and strong ownership in a customer-centric environment.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Be an independent individual contributor who can solve problems and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal/high-level oversight and a high level of ownership
- Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful features
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders in designing and architecting new features
- Experimentation mindset - autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP
- Quality mindset - you insist on quality as a critical pillar of your software deliverables
- Analytical mindset - instrument and deploy new product experiments with a data-driven approach
- Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting Truework’s significant scale
- Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team

## What you bring

- 5+ years of software development experience
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent education/training)
- Proficiency in Python and Javascript (or similar languages/frameworks)
- Experience developing RESTful APIs
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- A strong sense of ownership from feature design through production release
- A desire to collaborate with external stakeholders
- An eagerness to learn, collaborate, improve, innovate, and have fun

## What you’ll get

- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Learning and development allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
- Flexible PTO policy
- Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

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