Engineering Manager, Payments

Engineering is the core of Check. We believe payroll can and should be easy-to-use financial software, but getting there requires serious and sustained engineering effort. For our efforts, there is the deep satisfaction that comes from delivering people's paychecks. We are excited to bring on a new software engineering manager who will have an outsized impact on our systems and business on multiple fronts.

A large part of fulfilling Check’s mission of “making payroll software” is ensuring that every payment is made in a timely and accurate manner, for every payroll. Check is a payroll company, and at the same time, it is a payments company. The payments system at Check must be highly reliable and robust, and handle large volumes of money in and out, with a high degree of accuracy and auditability in tracking funds and associated liabilities.

For this role, we are seeking an engineering manager with an innovator’s mindset, the drive and experience to get deep into the domain, and high integrity. Here you will have a large impact on the business, individual careers, the direction of the engineering organization, and our systems.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a team of talented engineers to deliver a robust and reliable payments infrastructure platform that supports us and our partners as we scale
• Support the team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and productivity
• Help shape our system architecture with a technical and product vision
• Partner closely with operations, finance, legal, and design functions to drive business outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and develop engineers that exemplify our shared values
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives

Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates will have:

• Hands on experience scaling critical software platforms in the accounting space, banking integrations, or the payments domain
• 7+ years of overall software development experience
• A track record of successful development of individuals
• Thrived in highly cross-functional organizations

At Check, we value transparency and trust. It’s important to us that every employee and candidate feels confident that they’ll be treated (and compensated) fairly on our team. The engineering team specifically operates on a flat titling system, meaning everyone is either a Software Engineer or an Engineering Manager. We structure our titles this way to maximize equity, inclusion and opportunity within our team, and to minimize seniority bias. We want all engineers, regardless of job level, to feel empowered to lead projects they’re passionate about and to collaborate with their fellow Checketeers as equals. 

To that end, we will consider candidates with a variety of backgrounds and levels of expertise for this role, and we will determine the appropriate job level for each candidate based on their unique experience and qualifications. The expected annual salary for this role is between $200,000 and $253,000 depending upon the job level.

In the US, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage to all full-time employees, effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents and flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. Benefits may vary outside the US.