So much for background checks.

Two-time convicted rapist Rodney Stover spent the week leading up to the alleged bar-bathroom sex attack surrounded by children while working at a popular Empire State Building attraction, The Post has learned.

His job was to usher crowds of kids and their parents into the dark NY Skyride theater on the second floor, a former colleague said. He landed the gig two months after he was sprung from prison.

Stover bragged about the job to other residents of the Bellevue Men’s Shelter — a Kips Bay facility that houses some of the city’s most violent sex offenders.

“He was like very happy. He was telling everybody…he had just got the job,” said a man who lived with Stover on the seventh floor of the group home.

“He mentioned the kids really enjoyed it. They were really bugging their parents to take them up on this new ride in the Empire State Building,” said the man, who gave only his first name, Gary.

The sex fiend bragged that he was paid $18 per hour to rip tickets to the show — a dimly lit, 30-minute virtual tour of the city narrated by Kevin Bacon.

Men at the shelter couldn’t believe Stover had gotten the job until they saw him wearing the blue Skyride uniform.

“He’d come at you like, ‘I just got this job. They got a new system in the Empire State Building. I’m lucky to get this job,’ ” Gary said.

“It was a pretty good job for a guy who just came out…I wondered how he got it.”

Stover was released from a Pennsylvania prison two months ago. He had previously served 19 years in an upstate prison for a 1992 rape in the Hamptons.

A rep for Skyride did not return calls for comment. An employee who called himself a manager of operations said the company doesn’t hire convicted felons.

But another employee who declined to give his name said he didn’t think the company runs background checks.

“They’ve never done one on me,” he said.