[Hiring] Partner Engineering @Check

Role Description

As a Partner Engineer, you will serve as a technical and strategic advisor to prospective and existing partners, helping them evaluate, integrate, and optimize their payroll solutions. You will collaborate closely with the sales team in pre-sales engagements to design holistic solutions that address critical business challenges. Post-sales, you will continue to guide partners, ensuring smooth implementation and long-term success.

• Partner with account executives to design solutions that address key business challenges.
• Conduct deep technical discovery with engineers, product managers, and technical leaders to understand their needs.
• Clearly articulate how our platform solves technical challenges and contributes to business success.
• Develop proof of concept applications, present technical demonstrations, and help potential customers visualize integration opportunities.
• Design API-driven financial solutions, including onboarding, funds flows, and reporting.
• Act as the bridge between sales and partners’ engineering teams, ensuring smooth technical handoff.
• Provide high-level implementation plans and estimate time to market.
• Offer structured feedback to internal product and engineering teams based on partner experiences.
• Assist partners in architecting, troubleshooting, and optimizing their integrations.
• Serve as the subject matter expert and trusted advisor to partners post-integration.
• Own the post-sales technical strategy and roadmap alignment with partners.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key technical stakeholders, from engineers to C-suite executives.
• Provide proactive strategic and technical guidance to drive partner adoption and growth.
• Act as an advocate for partner needs within internal teams, influencing product development and innovation.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues beyond standard support channels.
• Build partner-facing documentation, resources, and other artifacts to aid technical enablement.

Qualifications

• 4 years+ of demonstrated success driving business outcomes in customer-centric roles; experience in FinTech or SaaS platforms preferred.
• Experience in a customer-facing engineering role; proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or other modern programming languages preferred.
• Experience in full-stack development and software architecture, with a deep understanding of system integrations; background in systems design and deployment of complex applications preferred.
• Hands-on experience working with APIs and technical infrastructures; experience integrating RESTful APIs into web applications preferred.
• Strong communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to effectively explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Problem-solving mindset with an entrepreneurial approach to tackling challenges.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Intellectual curiosity and adaptability to evolving technologies and business needs.
• Willing and able to attend our annual 3-day company offsite each year in the spring, and to travel occasionally as needed to support our partners.

Requirements

• This role can be remote, hybrid, or based in one of our offices in New York City or San Francisco.
• Travel regularly to see our partners.

Benefits

• Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on the first day of work.
• Stock options, flexible PTO and sick leave.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, flexible return-to-work.
• 10 annual holidays.
• 401k retirement plan.
• $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses.