Sr Software Engineer Devx
Job Summary
Checkr is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform Engineering group to drive initiatives enhancing service development, maintenance, and delivery. The role involves designing and maintaining scalable software systems, contributing to developer-experience tooling or core backend services, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have 6+ years of software development experience, advanced English skills, and proficiency in languages like Go, Python, or Ruby.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable software services and systems
- Contribute to developer-experience tooling or core backend services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in architectural discussions
- Lead projects and mentor less experienced engineers
Required Skills
- 6+ years of software development experience
- Advanced English skills
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Ruby, or similar object-oriented language
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
Job Details
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software development experience
- Advanced English skills
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Ruby, or a similar object-oriented language, with experience building microservices
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- Strong sense of ownership and a proactive attitude
- You thrive in environments where sharing knowledge is a core value and are motivated by helping your team and close collaborators align around a shared approach
- You excel in collaboration, mentorship, and innovative problem-solving
- Availability to work in a hybrid model in our Santiago office 3 days per week.
Projects:
- As a Senior Software Engineer within Checkr's Platform Engineering group, you will drive initiatives to enhance how your team builds, maintains, and delivers services, partnering with stakeholders across other Checkr teams.
- Your role will be instrumental in defining best practices and creating pathways that help your team deliver efficient, robust software solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain the software services and systems that power Checkr's platform, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Depending on team placement, contribute to developer-experience work spanning AgentForge (Checkr's platform for engineering agents), CI/CD, and other developer tooling and workflows (DevX), or to core backend services for Checkr's screening and verification platform (Core Services).
Functions:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical approaches and drive engineering best practices.
- Participate in architectural discussions — writing and reviewing ADRs/RFCs — to align your team on system design decisions.
- Provide feedback and consultation on system design and workflows to improve reliability and performance.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and advocate for engineering initiatives with team and cross-team stakeholders.
- Lead projects typically scoped to less than a quarter, handling low ambiguity with minimal direction — often guiding other engineers through cross-functional work.
- Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to a collaborative, supportive team culture.
Benefits:
- A collaborative and fast-moving environment
- Be part of an international company based in the United States
- $3,000 USD per year learning and development reimbursement allowance
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional and personal advancement
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Additional vacation benefits of 5 extra days and flexibility to take time off
- Lunch provided
- On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago, Chile) $49.980.000 - $58.800.000 annual gross CLP