Engineering Manager, Growth

Job Description

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including Amazon, DoorDash, Netflix, Kimpton, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company . About the Role Checkr is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Checkr Growth team. This team is hyper-focused on Checkr’s self-serve business delivering products and capabilities for Checkr’s growth funnel: Acquisition, Activation, Expansion & Retention. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire the engineering team to meet company objectives and bring new products and features to market. What You’ll Do Lead a team to work on growth-focused initiatives such as increasing self-service customer conversions, improving the onboarding experience, creating engagement loops, and expanding product usage across segments. Lead test experimentation across multiple surfaces to unlock incremental business value while improving customer experience Drive technical vision for the team that motivates and excites the team for the next chapter Partner closely with product management to build new features and enhance existing ones Work with the team to reduce technical debt and sustainably scale our architecture Build relationships with cross-functional teams and drive results with them Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations Hire best of the talent and continue to raise the bar for the team Represent the team in planning and product meetings Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality What you bring 4+ years as an engineering manager 8+ years as an engineer Exceptional verbal and written communication skills Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem-solving, and attention to detail Experience managing quality incidents as both a technical lead and communication lead Experience working on products at scale, and understanding the data, legal, human impact, and technical nuances of supporting highly regulated products Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies Deep understanding of service architecture and sy

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