Responsibilities
- Actively make Check better by working hands-on with our gnarliest problems across engineering teams.
- Build prototypes for creative solutions to fail fast and expedite future development.
- Share hot takes and candid, constructive feedback on ways we make our team or platform better.
- Coach your team by building genuine connections, embracing vulnerability, and working transparently.
- Simplify how and what weโre building by shaping the systemโs architecture.
- Role model clear, critical thinking through code, written proposals, or diagrams that illuminate problems and set direction.
- Architect and build scalable systems and services within our mono-repo, while taking ownership of end-to-end delivery from design to deployment.
Technical Stack
- Python/Django for our API
- React and Typescript for our frontends
- AWS and Terraform for our cloud infrastructure
- Postgres for our database
- Temporal for workflow orchestration
- GitLab for issue tracking and CI/CD
Requirements
- Experience with staff level ownership and impact across an organization.
- Experience building complex systems or within a regulated industry that have scaled and changed over time.
- Resiliency solving highly ambiguous problems or creating structure for collaboration.
- Proficient in debugging complex systems and handling critical incidents.
- Experience setting a technical strategy across teams.
- Proficiency in Python or Go (Django, React or Typescript is a plus).
Work Location and Policy
- Distributed team across the US with offices in New York City and San Francisco.
- Embrace remote work with encouraged in-person team events and annual retreat.
- Offices open all week with team activities and provided meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Benefits
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance effective first day.
- Stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave.
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Flexible return-to-work policy, 9 annual holidays, 401k retirement plan.
- $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.
