4 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build payout and money-movement systems covering onboarding, KYC, country and payout-method support, webhook reconciliation, retries, rate-limit handling, zero-downtime rollouts, and complete auditability.
- Build a payment and incentives platform for compensating, rewarding, and retaining fellows across projects.
- Develop trust and safety capabilities for KYC and re-verification, sanctions and fraud screening, account bans and suspicious-account transitions, and time-tracking audits.
- Own the Pay admin dashboard, ledger, and operational tooling used to run pay cycles safely.
- Lead schema design, migrations, and backfills across PostgreSQL while designing safe deployment rollouts.
- Set engineering standards through system design reviews, incident response, runbooks, observability, code review, architectural guidance, and mentoring.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience owning production systems where correctness and uptime matter, preferably in payments, fintech, identity, fraud, infrastructure, or similar high-stakes domains.
- Strong system design fundamentals for highly reliable, zero-downtime, auditable, and resilient systems, including migrations, idempotency, retries, backfills, audit logs, and reconciliation jobs.
- Deep proficiency with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, data modeling, and schema evolution under load.
- Strong backend skills in Ruby on Rails and/or TypeScript/Node, with willingness to work across both.
- Comfort working with React for operator and fellow-facing interfaces.
- Experience designing and operating asynchronous workflows such as Temporal or Sidekiq and integrating with third-party APIs such as Stripe, Deel, or Hubstaff.
- Track record of leading technical projects end-to-end in ambiguous environments, shipping behind feature flags, and verifying changes in production.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills when partnering with Ops, Finance, Legal, and Compliance.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Preferred experience includes production payments or money-movement systems; trust and safety, fraud, KYC/AML, sanctions screening, or identity verification; event sourcing, change-data-capture, or reconstructable audit-log architectures; comparable workflow orchestrators; and regulated or compliance-driven work involving 1099-NEC, OFAC, GDPR, or SOC 2 controls.
Benefits
- Equity in a fast-growing company, 401(k) match, financial coaching, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching, medical, dental and vision coverage, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend, $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development, commuting support, free lunch and gym access in the San Francisco office, flexible PTO, 15 holidays plus 2 flex days, team outings and referral bonuses.
- Benefits listed apply to full-time US employees.
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About Handshake
Handshake builds a career network and recruiting platform that connects college students and recent grads with employers, sold as SaaS to universities and subscriptions/solutions to employers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 1,600+ educational institutions and over 1 million employers. The company also operates Handshake AI, which partners with frontier AI labs on human data collection and evaluations for model training and post-training workflows.