hours per week running payroll and for the millions of Americans who depend on their next paycheck. At Check, our mission is to empower the most innovative software platforms to create new payroll businesses, and enable those businesses to transform the way companies pay their employees.
Check's culture is intensely caring: to each other as teammates, to our partners, and to the businesses and workers we serve. Our teams are made up of creative problem solvers and empathetic cross-functional collaborators who can simplify the complexities of payroll. We bring hustle and grit to our day-to-day, while building enduring solutions and relationships. As a payroll company, we're entrusted to
pay a lot of people, on time, accurately, and we take that responsibility very seriously. For this role, we are seeking a software engineering leader with deep reliability and infrastructure engineering experience.
You'll have an outsized impact on the reliability, security, and velocity of our product and our organization. In this role, you will: Lead improvements to the scalability, security, and performance of the platform and develop effectiveness of our engineering organization alongside the CTO and a small, experienced team Identify, architect, build, and lead platform improvements to accelerate impact and encourage best practices across Engineering across scalability, observability,
security, and reliability Build trust through exemplary individual contribution, collaboration, guidance, and mentorship of senior engineers, and creative problem-solving with functional leaders Manage and scale Check's infrastructure via infrastructure-as-code, balancing opportunity and cost management Advise senior management on system risks and work to determine an acceptable risk appetite while weighing overall business and usability impact Lead by example on an effective, sustainable, growth-oriented incident response culture Participate in threat modeling and mitigation with Security leadership Participate in product and engineering design reviews to incorporate high engineering standards Many backgrounds could fit this role, but ideal candidates will have some or all of the following: Fluency with AWS, Python, Terraform, databases, networking, APIs, observability platforms Exercised and nuanced understanding of scalability principles, distributed systems, and cloud native architectures through experience working on critical systems Innate sense of ownership, along with the aptitude to navigate ambiguity, self-start, and create structure for oneself and others Experience setting up and adapting cloud and application infrastructure in rapidly changing environments Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to multiple audiences.
Excellent, effective writing skills, with a bias toward documentation Demonstrated empathy for users and stakeholders and humility, enhancing a user-centric approach to system improvements Willingness and ability to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall Travel and Office Policy The Check team is distributed across the US and Canada and we have offices in New York City and San Francisco. While we welcome remote work, we believe time together in person is valuable and important. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons a couple of times a year!
We expect all employees to be willing to attend our annual 3-day company offsite in the fall. For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the team hosts regular happy hours, game nights, etc. What we offer: At Check we value transparency and trust. It's important to us that every employee and candidate feels confident that they'll be treated (and compensated) fairly on our team. The engineering team specifically operates on a flat titling system, meaning everyone is either a Software Engineer or an Engineering Manager.
We structure our titles this way to maximize equity, inclusion and opportunity within our team, and to minimize seniority bias. We want all engineers, regardless of job level, to feel empowered to lead projects they're passionate about and to collaborate with their fellow Checketeers as equals. To that end, we will consider candidates with a variety of backgrounds and levels of expertise for this role, and we will determine the appropriate job level for each candidate based on their unique experience and qualifications.
The expected annual salary for this role is between $185,000 and $252,000 , depending upon the job level. In the US, Check offers company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance coverage to all full-time employees, effective on your first day of work. We also provide stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents and flexible return-to-work, 9 annual holidays, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.
Benefits may vary outside the US. Check is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, interaction (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), interactionual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, interactionual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
Check is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at xyz X@ with " accommodations" in the subject line. Check participates in E - Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U. S. Check does not use E - Verify to pre-screen applicants.
and P&L tools for fixed income trading desks within Americas with a focus on tactical rapid delivery. This includes but is not limited to Options, Exotics, FX, Inflation, Emerging Markets, Swaps, Bonds, Repos to Credit Single Name (CDS), Credit Index, Corporate Bonds, HY and Distressed products across New York and LATAM regions.
This is a highly visible front-office facing role, where you will work with Trading, Quant Research and other teams from the middle office, back office and operations on various initiatives. Candidate Success Factors: Candidates to be measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
Results and Impact Impacts division and influences peers and team Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department Leadership and Collaboration Creates trust with department leaders Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients Interacts regularly with management and department leaders Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at the team
level Compliance Culture and Conduct Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards Responsibilities: As part of the role, you will cover the following responsibilities: 1.
IT Governance Be aware of local/global IT governance processes and apply when needed. Follow the usage of standard project management tools (Jira, Service Now, document templates etc. Proactively report risks & issues to stakeholders and management, especially those posing financial or reputation risk to client. 2.
Project Delivery Ensure the delivery of high quality value added RAD solutions to the NY Trading Business Ensure proper requirements gathering and client expectations for all RAD development projects. 3. Development Ensure the stability and high quality of the global platform by adhering to client's software development best practices in accordance to direction from management IT and/or business. Own a delivery from beginning to end, ensuring that the integrity of the existing functionality is maintained, whilst new features can be added seamlessly. Document new functionalities in clear and concise way, training users/Client as appropriate.
Promoting knowledge sharing within local and global development teams. 4. Reporting Provide regular and timely management reporting on status and progress of work using the tools and direction provided. Proactively escalate project risks (progress delays, scope creep, etc. 5. Other Ensure a high level of communication between Global Market IT teams both locally and globally. Build and maintain relationships with trading, business management, operations, and compliance and risk teams. Be knowledgeable of IT systems and platforms relevant to the business line you support.
Contributions: Provide software solutions as prioritized by the NY Trading Business for the traders, TAs, operations trade support, MO and Pn L and Client teams. Manage ad-hoc requests and incidents through to completion; Undertake investigations, ensure high levels of communication and provide tactical as well as strategic solutions all in a timely and controlled manner whilst reducing operational risk. Proactively collaborate for the support of the Global Trading Businesses with local and global teams to ensure proper development, support and maintenance of RAD systems with an aim to preempt production incidents.
Contribute to the stability and performance of applicable IT systems by always considering impact of changes pre and post release. Collaborate with Client teams to ensure proper documentation for usage and support of all existing and new developments. Ensure appropriate segregation of development and production to reduce operational risks Minimum Required Qualifications Skills At least 3 years of full-time work experience. Previous experience of front-office risk and P&L development and support. Very good understanding of Fixed Income products (highlighted in business overview) Excellent knowledge of Python (with scientific packages) Excellent knowledge of Excel & VBA.
Excellent knowledge of C#/. NET Good knowledge of MS-SQL Good knowledge of CI/CD setups (including Bitbucket, Jenkins, SONAR, Ansible, Artifactory etc) Competencies Excellent time management Communication - able to work with trading desks, IT teams and quant developers Analytical minded - the mathematical ability to learn and explain complex quantitative concepts quickly Team-working skills Able to work under pressure Proficient in English Preferred Qualifications: 5-7 years of full-time work experience within risk and P&L development.
Candidates with proven experience should also have had good exposure to Derivatives, ideally in a front-office facing role, and an in-depth understanding of the business.
and resistant liquidity in requested markets. Overall, we tend to keep market-neutral in order to thrive in any market conditions. Requirements: This opening requires a minimum of 4 days working in the office. Proficiency with data structures, algorithmic complexity and problem-solving Strong C/C++ knowledge in Linux.
Strong understanding of TCP/IP network protocols Strong multithreading and performance-oriented programming skills Familiar with version control tool. Ex. git. Familiar with C++ templates and metaprogramming is plus Familiar with Web Socket and Rest API is plus Experience in trading platform development is plus Benefits: Highly competitive salary and semi-annual performance-based
bonuses US working visa sponsorship of any qualified candidates if needed US green card sponsorship after one full year of employment if needed Team-wide career skills improvement workshops Team outing events and team dinners throughout the year in New York & Taiwan Well-stocked office kitchen Flexible PTO (Anticipated New York annual base salary range $100,000-200,000, plus eligible for the performance-based bonus.
) As an equal opportunity employer we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that's based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, interactionual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
