Backend Software Engineer II

About Checkr Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, 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 DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable. 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. As a Software Engineer at Checkr, you will work on high impact engineering projects that help build a fairer future for all. You will work in a collection of small services built on Ruby and Javascript, with both SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as message queues for asynchronous tasks. Checkr was founded by engineers for engineers; we want to create the best environment for developers to build, learn and love their work. What You’ll Do - Own the product development of features from design, implementation, to release - Partner with product, design and other stakeholders in designing new features - Collaborate with other engineers in architecting and implementing new features - Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our products - Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of transactions a day - Monitor, investigate, triage, and resolve production issues as they arise for services owned by the team - Bring a customer-centric, product-oriented mindset to the table - collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve product ambiguities and ship impactful 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 - Develop new end to end web applications - Instrume