Product Engineer

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.

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
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Our Stack: 

• Backend: Python/Django
• Frontend: React + TypeScript
• Infrastructure: AWS + Terraform
• Database: Postgres
• Workflow orchestration: Temporal
• Tooling: GitLab for CI/CD
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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, and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we embrace remote work, time together in person is where we do our best work. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year! We expect all employees to attend our annual 3-day company retreat in the fall.  

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, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, 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 each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and work location. Most new hires are placed near the midpoint of this range to ensure fairness with our existing team’s compensation. 

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

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.