Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety (T&S)

This position is for our Tessera Data business, which is focused on building a safer future, online and offline, by providing valuable people data to drive informed trust and safety decisions. Our industry-leading data serves as the backbone for background checks used to protect a company’s employees, customers, and community. We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join their team that is highly collaborative and cares deeply about the mission of our company, is eager to work with a diverse team of engineers and has a quality-focused mindset.

In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for integration of the recently acquired background checks solution into Tessera in the near future, working on the data vendor integrations and evolving it into the identity verification platform long-term. The background check solution currently contains several public APIs, public and internal portals, and a handful of microservices. To be successful, this individual will work on integrating the acquired background check product into the Tessera ecosystem and will work on turning it into a solid foundation to build a complex identity verification solution.

We are a team of data explorers that thrive in acquiring, processing, and delivering data to solve trust and safety decisions! Join our team and be part of:

• The industry leader in public records data aggregation and data classification/normalization
• A collaborative environment in which you can hone your skills, learn along with your colleagues, and grow professionally
• An environment where your voice matters: Be vocal, we want to hear your ideas
• A fun, creative, cooperative, and multicultural team

Responsibilities:

• Own the product development from ideation, design, implementation, to release
• Partner with the technical lead in designing and architecting new systems
• Collaborate with the technical lead and remote team in implementation
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Deliver performant, reliable, scalable, and secure code

What you bring:

• 6+ years experience as a software engineer working with .NET
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs
• Experience working with both RDBMS and NoSQL data stores such as SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB, or similar
• A strong understanding of microservice architecture infrastructure, inclusive of familiarity with Kubernetes
• Experience building lambda based applications on AWS
• Experience building CI/CD using Serverless, Cloudformation, Terraform or similar 
• Experience building asynchronous processing pipelines using message queuing systems such as AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ, Kafka or similar
• A passion for optimizing services for scale and speed
• A great desire to learn, collaborate, improve, and innovate

What you get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. 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. The salary range for this role is $98,898 to $205,850.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Tessera

Tessera is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Tessera believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.   

Tessera also welcomes the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records. Tessera's commitment to diversity extends to hiring talented individuals in spite of a prior criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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