Partner Engineer
Check Technologies · New York City, NY
About this role
**Partner Engineer — Check (Payroll Infrastructure & AI)** ## About Check ABOUT CHECK Payroll is broken. It’s still running on decades-old infrastructure. We’re rebuilding it. We don’t run payroll ourselves—we power the businesses that do. As the inventors of embedded payroll, we’re redefining how people get paid and making it easier for payroll businesses to launch, grow, and thrive. ## About the Team Our **Partner Engineering** team accelerates partner revenue growth through deep technical expertise—both consultatively and hands-on engineering. We support partners from successful launch through growth and scale. You’ll write code, build systems, and ship features alongside Check’s core engineering organization, working closely with cross-functional teams (Sales, Engineering, Product). Partner Engineers also lead Check’s **company-wide AI strategy**, integrating AI capabilities across our product and internal tooling. ## About the Role As a **Partner Engineer**, you’ll be both: - a **hands-on technical builder**, and - a **strategic advisor** to prospective and existing partners. You’ll help partners evaluate, integrate, and optimize their payroll solutions—by **writing production code, architecting integrations, and building features** (not just recommending them). A defining responsibility of this role is leading Check’s **adoption of AI across our product and stack**: identifying high-leverage AI opportunities, prototyping and building AI-powered tools and features, and serving as an internal thought leader on how AI can transform how Check and our partners operate. ## What You’ll Do ### Implementation & Integration - Bridge between **Sales** and partners’ engineering teams to ensure smooth technical handoff - Write code with partner engineering teams to accelerate integrations, debug complex issues, and demonstrate best practices - Architect robust, scalable integration patterns for partners building on Check - Provide implementation plans and estimate time to market - Deliver structured feedback to internal Product and Engineering based on partner experience - Assist partners with architecture, troubleshooting, and optimization ### Post-Sales Support & Partner Success - Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor post-integration - Own post-sales technical strategy and roadmap alignment with partners - Build and maintain relationships with key technical stakeholders (engineers to C-suite) - Provide proactive strategic and technical guidance to drive adoption and growth - Advocate for partner needs internally to influence product development and innovation - Build partner-enabling features (you write the code) - Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues beyond standard support - Create partner-facing documentation and technical enablement resources ### AI Strategy & Adoption - Lead efforts to identify, prototype, and ship AI-powered capabilities across product and internal tooling - Evaluate AI frameworks/models/tooling; recommend and own build-out of high-priority initiatives - Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define Check’s AI roadmap and champion responsible, high-impact AI adoption - Help partners leverage AI to improve their payroll and workforce management workflows built on Check ## What You Bring - Demonstrated experience building with AI (LLMs, AI agents, or AI-powered tooling) and a strong point of view on where AI creates leverage - Strong communication skills and executive p
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