Staff Software Engineer – Payroll Platform

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Check, you will combine strong engineering fundamentals with close collaboration across product, design, and operations to build the platform that powers money movement, tax calculations, and compliance workflows for thousands of payroll businesses.

Key responsibilities

• Run at complex problems across our platform, designing and building products that translate complex payroll infrastructure into intuitive tools for operators and partners.
• Own projects end‑to‑end, from identifying the problem and shaping the solution through design, implementation, rollout, and iteration based on real‑world usage.
• Partner with product, design, and operations to develop a deep understanding of payroll workflows and challenges.
• Build internal and partner‑facing tools that improve visibility, reliability, and explainability of money movement.
• Reduce friction by improving workflows, architecture, and tooling for developers and operators.

Required profile

• Experience with staff‑level ownership and delivery of production systems end‑to‑end.
• Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or product systems supporting complex operational workflows.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and bring structure through thoughtful design and collaboration.
• Comfort debugging complex systems that span multiple services or infrastructure layers.
• Ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineers and cross‑functional partners.

Required skills

• Python/Django
• React
• Typescript
• AWS
• Terraform
• Postgres
• Temporal
• GitHub

What we offer

• Base salary $240,000‑264,000 in Tier 1 cities or $228,000‑250,000 elsewhere.
• Remote, hybrid, or office‑based work options across the United States.
• Meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays, regular happy hours, game nights, and an annual 3‑day company retreat.
• Equal‑opportunity employer with accommodations for candidates with disabilities.