Head of Platform Engineering, Checkr
$337.5-456.6k
2+ days a week in office
Automated background checks
Open for applications
Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$337.5-456.6k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated success in building and leading vision, strategy, and execution of platform engineering initiatives
- Experience with driving successful platform adoption programs, with the ability to demonstrate the business impact of such initiatives
- Data-driven mindset: you know that everything built must be measured to understand its impact on the business and drive your teams to build with that in mind
- Customer centricity: you understand that customer behavior and sentiment must be well understood to effectively build products for them; this can be understood both through data as well as qualitative discussions with customers
- Experience defining and scaling modern products (API, self-service, UX first products)
- Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group both internally and externally
- Willingness to lead in a hands-on, high-performance environment
- Organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented
- High degree of humility and accountability
- Experience leading, growing, and retaining high-performance engineering leadership at Director+ level
What the job involves
- As the Head of Platform Engineering at Checkr, you will be responsible for driving the organization's overall platform and infrastructure strategy
- To achieve this, you will need to have a deep understanding of platform engineering and how to drive a strategic roadmap of foundational capabilities and, most importantly, its adoption by the other development teams
- Guide the technical vision and strategy for the best in class highly scalable, available, and secure platform and infrastructure
- Create a broad catalog of services based on capabilities and platforms that can be leveraged by other engineerings teams at Checkr
- Develop and drive platform architecture practices that encourage common solution elements, patterns, and reuse
- Build a cross collaborative culture between the platform and other engineering teams
- Operationalize and manage delivery across platform engineering team, scaling processes and systems
- Foster an action-bias culture for product innovation and delivery, high performance, transparency, and continuous improvement
- Work across the engineering team to shape software development to meet Checkr's objectives and key results
- Build a diverse, equitable, inclusive culture that helps all members feel like they belong
- Partner with product leadership to influence business strategy, especially in your area of ownership
- Bring customer centricity to your entire engineering team
- Hire, retain, and scale a world-class engineering team team
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $550.2m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company values
- Humility - We are respectful and free from arrogance. We put the success of our employees over our company and are excited to learn from each other.
- Grit - We are passionate and hustle to raise the bar. We persevere through our challenges and grow from our failures.
- Transparency - We trust each other to communicate the good and the bad as it relates to doing our best work. We aren’t afraid to voice our opinions and are receptive to feedback.
- Connection - We genuinely care about each other and understand that our people are our power. We celebrate our lived experiences and enjoy helping and supporting each other.
- Ownership - We strive for thoughtful impact, take pride in our work, and hold ourselves accountable. We step up and take on new challenges to help further the success of the company.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(CTO)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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