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Senior Software Engineer, Truework

185k – 218kSan Francisco, CAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Truework team, you will develop and maintain a platform used by top mortgage lenders. This role involves taking ownership of the product development lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.

About the role

About the Role

Truework, recently acquired by Checkr, provides access to crucial employment and income information needed for mortgage loans, apartment rentals, background checks, and more. We are disrupting a $5B+ industry, dominated by legacy incumbents, with a better product and intense customer focus. Within Checkr, Truework operates independently, allowing rapid iteration while also being able to leverage the strengths and assets from our core business. Think of it like joining a startup within a startup!

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Truework team you will help develop and maintain the platform that’s used by 8 of the top 10 mortgage lenders in the US. At Checkr, Engineers take ownership and responsibility on all aspects of Product development from leading projects, working with product managers and customers to define and implement features, to collaborating with our sales and marketing teams on launching and scaling products. You’ll have a lot of autonomy and will be successful if you have high agency and a keen sense of craftsmanship for yourself and others.

Most of the work we need to do is backend-oriented, but we are open to candidates from a broad set of roles (full stack, backend, QA engineers, SREs, etc.) if you meet our requirements.

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
  • An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes

What We Offer

  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • Learning and development allowance
  • Competitive cash and equity 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
Skills
PythonJavaScriptRESTful APIsAPI DevelopmentSystem Design
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