Overview

At Check, we make paying people simple. We are building payroll businesses together with our partners and redefining how people get paid by enabling embedded payroll. Check is more than API infrastructure—we are a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on 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 legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, provided they are consistent with applicable laws. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. Check participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information to confirm work authorization in the U.S. Check does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

Our Team

Payroll is broken. Come fix it alongside a team that’s as passionate as you are. At Check, you’ll use creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and grit to impact every business we build. We view problems to solve and jobs to be done as opportunities to contribute to the solution; we ignore conventional role boundaries in favor of the unique strengths and value each builder brings to our team and to our mission. Join us if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll. Let’s simplify the complex, make a real impact, and create a better future for businesses of every size.

The Work

At Check, you’ll join a team of builders who love to move fast, solve problems end to end, and make things happen. You won’t just write code — you’ll take ideas from zero to production and own the impact. Our stack is modern, cloud-native, and built to scale, but we care most about speed and simplicity.

In this role, you will:

• Spot the right problems and solve them creatively
• Ship high-quality, high-impact code across the stack — fast
• Use AI tools and automation to multiply your velocity
• Work closely with product and design, then run with execution
• Make smart trade-offs to keep momentum high
• Simplify systems, share feedback, and raise the quality bar
• Build trust and help grow a high-performance team culture

Our Stack:

• Frontend: React + TypeScript
• Infrastructure: AWS + Terraform
• Workflow orchestration: Temporal
• Tooling: GitLab for CI/CD

Tools for the job:

• You’ve led projects and rallied stakeholders around big outcomes
• You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• You love debugging tricky problems and finding elegant solutions
• You balance speed and quality with strong product instincts
• You code in Python or Go (bonus for Django, React, or TypeScript)
• You want to shape how a high-performance team builds and ships

Travel and Office Policy

The Check team is distributed across the US, with offices in New York City and San Francisco. We embrace remote work, but time together in person is where we do our best work. We offer opportunities for team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year, and we expect attendance at our annual 3-day company retreat in the fall. For in-office and hybrid employees, offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and host regular social events.

What we offer

For full-time employees, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, disability, and basic life insurance, effective on the first day. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave, flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.

The actual annual salary for this role depends on experience, qualifications, and work location. Most new hires are placed near the midpoint of the range to ensure fairness with the existing team’s compensation.

• In San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle, the expected range is $200,000–$220,000.
• For all other locations, the expected range is $180,000–$198,000.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline. Remote work requires the ability to perform all responsibilities without distraction while maintaining quality and productivity.