Check
Partner Engineer
$155K–$200K
New York City, NY · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Check participates in E-Verify and confirms new employees’ U.S. work authorization; it does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.
About the job
Builds and advises on partner payroll integrations while developing production features and leading AI adoption across Check’s product and internal tools.
What you'll do
- Write code with partners, architect and troubleshoot integrations, and build partner features.
- Guide partners’ post-sales technical strategy, adoption, and growth; share partner feedback internally.
- Identify, prototype, and ship AI capabilities across Check’s product and internal stack.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including writing and shipping production code.
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs into web applications.
- Demonstrated experience building with AI, including LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered tooling.
- Ability to attend the annual 3-day spring company offsite and travel occasionally as needed.
Nice to have
- Customer-facing or solutions engineering experience at a FinTech or SaaS platform.
Pay
$154.7K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
LLMs, AI agents, RESTful APIs
AI focus
Lead AI adoption by identifying, prototyping, and shipping AI capabilities across Check’s product and internal stack; evaluate AI frameworks, models, and tooling; help partners apply AI to payroll and workforce management workflows.
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