Partner Engineer

The role

You will serve as a hands-on technical builder and strategic advisor to help partners evaluate, integrate, and optimize payroll solutions. You will write production code, architect integrations, and lead the company's adoption of AI capabilities.

What you will do

• Act as the bridge between sales and partners' engineering teams
• Write code alongside partner engineering teams to accelerate integrations and debug issues
• Architect robust, scalable integration patterns for partners
• Provide implementation plans and estimate time to market
• Offer structured feedback to internal product and engineering teams
• Assist partners in architecting, troubleshooting, and optimizing integrations
• Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to partners post-integration
• Own the post-sales technical strategy and roadmap alignment with partners
• Build key features that unlock value for partners
• Lead company-wide efforts to identify, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building with AI including LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered tooling
• Strong communication skills and executive presence
• Problem-solving mindset with an entrepreneurial approach
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Intellectual curiosity and adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs
• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code
• Hands-on experience working with APIs and technical infrastructure
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs into web applications
• Comfort operating at the intersection of engineering and product
• Willing and able to attend annual 3-day company offsite each year in the spring
• Willing and able to travel occasionally as needed to support partners

Nice to have

• Experience in customer-facing or solutions engineering roles at a FinTech or SaaS platform

Benefits

• Meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays for in-office and hybrid employees
• Regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events
• Annual 3-day company retreat

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

About the company

Check is the payroll engine behind platforms businesses rely on, acting as the inventors of embedded payroll. They provide API infrastructure to help partners build and scale payroll businesses.