Head of Platform Engineering

July 30

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Checkr, Inc.

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Background screening • Motor Vehicle Reports • Criminal Searches • API • FCRA Compliance

501 - 1000

Description

• 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 engineering 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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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