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Senior Software Engineer, Trust
Checkr INC · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 7 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Checkr INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $176k–$265k, median $180k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Checkr INC
The US Department of Labor certified 7 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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, and Anthropic. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company . About the team/role Checkr Trust is building safer communities by providing our customers with risk signals about its users. Every year, our team provides insights on tens of millions of users across multiple verticals: online dating, car rental, short-term rentals, and many more. We acquire, analyze, and deliver insights in smart, scalable ways that help organizations identify and mitigate risk. Trust is part of the Checkr start-up lab: we operate with the speed of a small startup, while enjoying the leverage and resources of a known technology brand. Since launching, we’ve seen significant growth and we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in the continued growth of our startup. As part of our small team, you will be empowered to take significant end-to-end ownership - from idea to execution to real customer and business impact. What you’ll do: • Work closely with customers, engineers, and leaders to design, build, and launch new products. • Take full ownership of the entire process of developing end-to-end applications – from shaping the idea to delivering the finished application. • Embrace a customer-centric, product-first approach – partner directly with customer success, customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs and turn those into useful features. • Keep code reliable and easy to maintain with solid testing, thoughtful reviews, and good practices. • Run and measure product experiments, using what you learn to guide future development. • Building scalable APIs and asynchronous event-based architecture that can reliably handle very high traffic, including integrating with third-party services to expand what our products can do. What you bring: • BS/MS degree in either computer science or an engineering discipline. • Have founded or held early roles at successful fast-paced startups. • 5+ years of full stack software development experience. • Advanced knowledge in Ruby (Rails), Javascript (React), or similar languages/frameworks. • Comfortability working with AI tools day-to-day, and the ability to build simple AI-powered tools or workflows that boost team or org productivity. • Experimentation mindset: autonomy and empowerment to validate a customer need, get team buy-in, and ship a rapid MVP. • Early-stage approach: comfort with ambiguity, balancing speed and perfection, and the confidence and curiosity to help guide product direction. • An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes. Nice to have: • Experience building scalable technical architecture that can scale to 10mm+ users (including observability tooling, container orchestration, etc). Background in trust & safety, IDV, background check products or criminal data. • Expertise in data analysis and processing. • Experience building and working with scrapers and scraping technology 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 possib