Partner Engineering

Building at Check

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.

Check is far more than just API infrastructure. We’re a springboard for building and scaling payroll businesses.

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.

At Check, we call our customers "partners" to reflect the deep relationships and aligned incentives we have with the businesses that build on top of our software. Our Partner Engineering team is dedicated to helping partners unlock the full potential of their payroll solutions through proactive, strategic, and technical guidance. This approach fosters product adoption, expansion, and deeper partnerships.

About the Team

The Partner Engineering team plays a critical role in accelerating revenue growth by applying deep technical expertise — both in a consultative capacity and through direct, hands-on engineering — to drive better business outcomes for our partners. This team supports the entire partner journey, from initial discussions through the successful launch of embedded payroll solutions. We write code, build systems, and ship features alongside Check's core engineering organization. We work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, engineering, and product management, to ensure that partners can effectively integrate and maximize the value of our platform. Partner Engineers are also at the forefront of Check's company-wide AI strategy, leading the integration of AI capabilities across our product and internal tooling.

About the Role

As a Partner Engineer, you will serve as both a hands-on technical builder and a strategic advisor to prospective and existing partners, helping them evaluate, integrate, and optimize their payroll solutions. You will write production code, architect integrations, and build features — not just recommend them. You will collaborate closely with the sales team in pre-sales engagements to design holistic solutions that address critical business challenges. Post-sales, you will continue to guide partners, ensuring smooth implementation and long-term success.

A defining responsibility of this role is leading Check's adoption of AI across our product and stack. You will identify high-leverage opportunities to embed AI into Check's platform and partner-facing surfaces, prototype and build AI-powered tools and features, and serve as a thought leader internally on how AI can transform the way Check and our partners operate.

This role is ideal for someone who is deeply technical, loves to build, and has a passion for solving open-ended problems at the intersection of software engineering and AI. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the largest platforms and fastest-growing companies, helping them navigate technical evaluations and achieve their business goals.

What You’ll Do

• Pre-Sales Engagement:
  • Partner with account executives to design solutions that address key business challenges.
  • Conduct deep technical discovery with engineers, product managers, and technical leaders to understand their needs.
  • Clearly articulate how our platform solves technical challenges and contributes to business success.
  • Develop proof of concept applications, present technical demonstrations, and help potential customers visualize integration opportunities.
  • Design API-driven financial solutions, including onboarding, funds flows, and reporting.
• Implementation & Integration:
  • Act as the bridge between sales and partners' engineering teams, ensuring smooth technical handoff.
  • Write code alongside partner engineering teams to accelerate integrations, debug complex issues, and demonstrate best practices.
  • Architect robust, scalable integration patterns for partners building on Check's platform.
  • Provide high-level implementation plans and estimate time to market.
  • Offer structured feedback to internal product and engineering teams based on partner experiences.
  • Assist partners in architecting, troubleshooting, and optimizing their integrations.
• Post-Sales Support & Partner Success:
  • Serve as the subject matter expert and trusted advisor to partners post-integration.
  • Own the post-sales technical strategy and roadmap alignment with partners.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with key technical stakeholders, from engineers to C-suite executives.
  • Provide proactive strategic and technical guidance to drive partner adoption and growth.
  • Act as an advocate for partner needs within internal teams, influencing product development and innovation.
  • Build key features that unlock value for Check's partners — you write the code, not just the spec.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues beyond standard support channels.
  • Build partner-facing documentation, resources, and other artifacts to aid technical enablement.
• AI Strategy & Adoption:
  • Lead Check's company-wide efforts to identify, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across our product and internal stack.
  • Evaluate emerging AI frameworks, models, and tooling; make concrete recommendations and own the build-out of high-priority initiatives.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to define Check's AI roadmap and serve as an internal champion for responsible, high-impact AI adoption.
  • Help partners leverage AI to improve their own payroll and workforce management workflows built on Check's platform.

Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates will have most or all of the following:

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code; experience in customer-facing or solutions engineering roles at a FinTech or SaaS platform preferred
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or other modern programming languages — you will be expected to write, review, and debug real code as a core part of this job
• Experience in full-stack development and software architecture, with a deep understanding of system design, service integrations, and deployment of complex distributed applications
• Hands-on experience working with APIs and technical infrastructure; experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs into web applications required
• Demonstrated experience building with AI — including LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered tooling — and a strong point of view on where AI creates the most leverage in a product and engineering context
• Comfort operating at the intersection of engineering and product: you can go deep in a codebase and then turn around and communicate the tradeoffs clearly to a non-technical executive
• Strong communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to effectively explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Problem-solving mindset with an entrepreneurial approach to tackling challenges
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Intellectual curiosity and adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs
• Willing and able to attend our annual 3-day company offsite each year in the spring, and to travel occasionally as needed to support our partners

Travel and Office Policy

This role can be remote, hybrid, or based in one of our offices in New York City or San Francisco. The Check team is distributed across the US and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we welcome remote work, personal time is valuable and important. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! All employees must be willing to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the spring. In this role, you’ll also travel regularly to see our partners!

For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours, game nights, etc.

What we offer:

For full-time employees, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on their first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for new parents, flexible return-to-work, 10 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 is dependent on each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and work location:

• The expected base salary range in San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Seattle is between $196,000 and $221,200.
• For all other locations, the expected base salary range is between $166,600 and $188,020.

We accept applications on an ongoing basis with no specified deadline.

Remote work at Check requires the ability to perform all responsibilities without distraction or disruption, while maintaining quality, effective communication, and productivity.

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 applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, provided they are consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

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.