Senior Engineering Manager, Mortgage

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>About Checkr<br></strong></span>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, and Anthropic.<br><br>We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on <a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/" target="_blank">Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List</a> and is a Y Combinator 2024 <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-2024">Breakthrough Company</a>.</p></div><p><strong>About the team/role</strong></p> <p>As the Senior Engineering Manager for Mortgage, you’ll lead 16+ engineers as the head of engineering for Checkr’s mortgage business. Reporting to the VP of Engineering with visibility to executive leadership, you’ll own the product end to end from APIs and integrations to AI/ML-powered verification decisions and the customer experience.&nbsp;You’ll operate as a business leader, not just an engineering leader: partnering with Product to shape strategy, owning the technical roadmap and delivery against growth targets, and building the team and systems needed to serve the country’s largest lenders.</p> <p>We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader who has built and scaled high-performing engineering teams and production systems, while staying close to architecture and execution. Experience in mortgage lending or another regulated, high-stakes industry is a plus.&nbsp;The stakes are real: the systems you build directly impact people’s ability to get a mortgage, giving you the opportunity to drive meaningful customer and business impact at scale.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the technical roadmap and architecture for the Mortgage platform and partner with product management to co-own product direction, build new features, and enhance existing ones, decisions here affect millions of consumers a year</li> <li>Own delivery for the Mortgage business line, and partner with the business's leadership as a peer, jointly accountable for the business's results,&nbsp;</li> <li>Set the technical direction for the team, reduce technical debt, and scale the architecture sustainably while maintaining delivery speed, advancing Checkr into the next generation of product offerings</li> <li>Represent engineering in annual strategy planning, including capacity modeling, headcount planning, and prioritization tradeoffs.</li> <li>Manage