Engineering Manager - Data Acquisition LiveCheck
Engineering Manager leading Checkr's Data Acquisition LiveCheck team, which supports and expands the largest US national criminal database backing Checkr's background-check products. The role sets technical vision, partners with product, reduces tech debt, and hires and coaches the team, working hybrid (3+ days/week) from Santiago, Chile.
- Compensation
- CLP 83M–CLP 97.6M / yr
- Location
- Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 4+ years as an engineering manager
- 8+ years as an engineer
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Strong critical thinking, decision making, problem-solving, and attention to detail
- Experience managing quality incidents as both technical lead and communication lead
- Experience working on products at scale, including data, legal, human impact, and technical nuances of highly regulated products
- Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies
- Deep understanding of service architecture, system design, and lean software development principles
- Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly and thoughtfully
- Able to develop inclusive teams and mentor via stretch assignments
- Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn
- Work from the Santiago office 3+ days a week (hybrid)
Full description
**About Checkr
**Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, Amazon, and Anthropic.
A career at Checkr means collaborating with brilliant minds, disrupting an industry, and opening channels of employment to often overlooked candidates. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Checkr is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Data Acquisition LiveChek team. This team is responsible for supporting and expanding the largest US national criminal database. This database supports all Checkrs products and clients. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, coach, and inspire the tech ops team to meet company objectives.
What You’ll Do:Drive technical vision for the team that motivates and excites the team for the next chapter
- Partner closely with product management to build new features and enhance existing ones
- Work with the team to reduce technical debt and sustainably scale our architecture
- Build relationships with cross-functional teams and drive results with them
- Nurture and grow team members based on their career aspirations
- Hire best of the talent and continue to raise the bar for the team
- Represent the team in planning and product meetings
- Optimize engineering processes and policies to drive velocity and quality
What you bring
- 4+ years as an engineering manager
- 8+ years as an engineer
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Strong skills in critical thinking, decision making, problem-solving, and attention to detail
- Experience managing quality incidents as both a technical lead and communication lead
- Experience working on products at scale, and understanding the data, legal, human impact, and technical nuances of supporting highly regulated products
- Strong experience with TDD, pair programming, and agile methodologies
- Deep understanding of service architecture and system design as well as lean software development principles
- Ability to make high-level prioritization decisions quickly and thoughtfully
- Backbone to make tough decisions when necessary
- Able to develop inclusive teams to foster growth and diversity