At Check, we make paying people simple. In doing that, we’re not just building our own business—we’re building payroll businesses together with every one of our partners. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we’re redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch, grow, and thrive. Check out the full story | Tune in.
Our culture is built on passion, resilience, and empathy—for each other, our partners, and the users we serve. If you crave challenges and love tackling complex problems, Check is the place for you. Here, your ideas will shape the future and make a real impact. Join us in perfecting the science of payroll and creating lasting impact across industries!
Check is hiring a full stack engineer to expand our embedded payroll platform: the intuitive APIs, delightful UIs, and product-backed services that simplify creating, growing, and running a payroll business for our partners. This is the perfect role for an engineer who wants to have an outsized business impact. Our technical stack includes Python, Django, React, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS.
In this role, you will:
- Scope, develop, and lead large technical projects with significant business impact
- Build tools that support and automate complex payroll workflows for our partners and internal teams
- Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team
- Use data-driven analysis to identify opportunities to achieve our business goals
- Provide input on product and strategic decision-making
You may be a fit for this role if you:
- Have a strong product/user orientation
- Focus on iterative value delivery
- Have led projects that simplify complex concepts through software
- Enjoy navigating ambiguity and making decisions independently
- Have interest in designing both frontend UIs and backend APIs
- Love working with cross-functional stakeholders
We use:
- Python (type-annotated) and Django for our API
- React and TypeScript for our frontends
- Postgres for our database
- AWS for our cloud infrastructure
- GitLab for issue tracking and CI/CD
What we offer:
At Check, transparency and fairness in compensation are our top priorities. Operating on a flat titling system, our engineering team ensures equity and opportunity for all team members. We believe in empowering engineers, irrespective of their job level, to lead projects they're passionate about and collaborate as equals with their fellow Checketeers. Candidates are assessed based on their unique experience and qualifications, with the expected annual salary/hourly rate varying by job level and location:
- The expected range in San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle is between $168,900 and $213,290.
- The expected range For all other locations is between $143,550 and $181,297.
Full-time employees receive comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, stock options, flexible PTO, parental leave, holidays, a 401k plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.
We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.
Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected] with “accommodations” in the subject line.
Check participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S. Check does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Our API abstracts away the complexities of running payroll: tax calculation, remittance, and filing, plus the movement of money between companies and employees. This enables companies to easily build fully integrated payroll products to offer to their customers.
Why Work With Us
As the first touchpoint for the $10 trillion in wages paid in the US every year, payroll is a strategic yet under-explored space in the broader fintech ecosystem. We believe that the infrastructure-as-a-service model will fundamentally transform the current payroll industry and promote innovation in financial services for years to come.
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Check Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. We welcome in-office, hybrid, and remote work options. For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week.
