3 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with operators to understand processes, pain points, and success metrics.
- Translate operational needs into clear technical requirements and deliverables.
- Architect and build internal tools, automations, and workflows that improve throughput, accuracy, and visibility.
- Lead projects end-to-end through discovery, scoping, technical design, implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Balance delivery speed and quality while ensuring maintainability and operational reliability.
- Collaborate with operators, engineering, and product partners to drive adoption and measurable impact.
- Mentor other engineers and help establish strong engineering practices for an internal-tools environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with comfort owning systems from requirements through production support.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, empathy, and EQ when partnering with non-engineering teams.
- Experience building internal tools, workflow systems, or operational automation, or experience in analogous customer-embedded roles such as forward-deployed or solutions engineering.
- Strong engineering judgment, including scalable system design, appropriate abstraction choices, and maintainability.
- A track record of delivering iterative, high-leverage improvements in ambiguous environments.
- Experience with workflow or backlog systems, intake processes, operational analytics, instrumentation, dashboards, or QA is valued.
- Comfort in a player-coach environment involving hands-on building, coordination, and mentorship is valued.
- Experience building case management, review and approval flows, data quality tooling, or other knowledge-work operations tooling is valued.
Benefits
- Equity in a fast-growing company
- 401(k) match, competitive compensation, and financial coaching
- Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching
- Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and wellness stipend
- Learning stipend and ongoing development
- Remote and office support including internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym at the San Francisco office
- Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days
- Team outings and referral bonuses
- Full-time US employee benefits
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.