Engineering Manager - Data Acquisition LiveCheck - Checkr - Chile

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
• Ready to mentor the team to grow by providing stretch assignments and opportunities relevant to their interests
• Humility, openness to feedback, and eagerness to learn

Pay Transparency Disclosure

We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website .

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Santiago, Chile)

$82.952.900 — $97.590.000 CLP

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