# Software Engineer, Staff at Check

- Company: Check
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://checkhq.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $228K to $264K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/check-technologies/61b80611-a372-4e19-b3ef-ae667d4abd12
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/check-software-engineer-staff/

## About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Check, you’ll combine strong engineering fundamentals and close collaboration with cross-functional partners to build software that meaningfully improves how payroll businesses operate. You'll build the platform that powers money movement, tax calculations, and compliance workflows for thousands of businesses. By turning complex infrastructure into clear, reliable systems for our partners, you'll allow teams to run payroll confidently and help thousands of people get paid.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with staff-level ownership and delivery of production systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and operation
- Experience building internal tools, developer platforms, or product systems that support complex operational workflows
- Ability to navigate ambiguous problem spaces and bring structure through thoughtful design and collaboration
- Comfort debugging complex systems and investigating issues that span multiple services or infrastructure layers
- Ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineers and cross-functional partners
- While we don't have requirements for programming languages, experience with or, at minimum, a desire to learn our current stack is helpful: Python/Django, React, Typescript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Temporal, Github

Tags: Research & Development