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Base Salary
$140k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own full-stack Promotions initiatives from design through launch in partnership with product, design, and data teams.
- Build scalable and reliable systems for promoted-content delivery, auctions, event tracking, attribution, and analytics.
- Improve applicant attribution and employer-facing analytics so customers can understand and trust promotion results.
- Use customer feedback and performance data to measure impact and guide product iteration.
- Maintain production ownership through testing, observability, debugging, code reviews, mentorship, and quality improvements.
Requirements
- 1–3 years of full-stack engineering experience.
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems with attention to reliability, performance, and data consistency.
- Ownership of complex software projects, strong product judgment, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
- Clear communication, collaborative technical leadership, pragmatic delivery, strong debugging skills, and attention to detail.
- Experience investigating production issues across services and data flows.
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude while maintaining code quality and correctness.
- Preferred experience includes advertising technology, auctions, marketplaces, recommendation systems, attribution, analytics, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, employer-facing or SaaS products, and experimentation.
Benefits
- Equity, competitive compensation, 401(k) match, and financial coaching.
- Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching.
- Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and a $500 wellness stipend.
- $2,000 learning stipend and ongoing development opportunities.
- Five days per week onsite in the San Francisco office, with internet, commuting support, free lunch, and gym access.
- Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
- Team outings and referral bonuses.
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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.