Product Engineer
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Overview Join to apply for the Product Engineer role at Check
Building at Check. At Check, we make paying people simple and redefine how people get paid by building embedded payroll partnerships with a global base of customers and payroll businesses.
Check is more than API infrastructure; we’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses. Our team is a catalyst for solving real payroll challenges and redefining how businesses pay people.
Join us if you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and redefine payroll, simplify the complex, make a real impact, and create a better future for businesses of every size.
Responsibilities 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 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 Backend: Python/Django
Frontend: React + TypeScript
Infrastructure: AWS + Terraform
Database: Postgres
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 Building Together on Common Ground. The Check team is distributed across the US, with offices in New York City and San Francisco. We embrace remote work, encourage team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple times a year, and expect all employees to attend our annual 3-day company retreat in the fall. For in-office and hybrid employees, our 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 of work. 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 plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.
The actual annual salary depends on experience, qualifications, and location. Ranges by location are:
In San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle: $200,000 – $220,000
All other locations: $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, maintain quality, communicate effectively, and stay productive.
EEO and Compliance Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected characteristics. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories as permitted by law and provide reasonable accommodations in recruiting. Check participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information for new employees to confirm work authorization in the U.S.
Seniority level Entry level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Salary:
- $200,000 - $250,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineering