12 hours ago
Base Salary
$136k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain tools for builds, tests, code review, and change merging for engineers and coding agents.
- Diagnose and resolve slow builds, unreliable tests, confusing errors, and test interference.
- Improve test performance and reliability through distributed execution, safe result reuse, and isolation.
- Make failures easier to understand by providing clear explanations and next steps.
- Improve the tools, instructions, and environments used by coding agents to write, test, and debug code.
- Build automated code reviews and checks while maintaining quality and safety standards.
- Use developer surveys, feedback, and system data to identify problems and measure improvements.
- Share knowledge through documentation, code reviews, and working sessions.
Requirements
- About 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience or comparable hands-on experience.
- Strong JavaScript or TypeScript skills and experience in the JavaScript ecosystem, with server-side or browser-based experience.
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript unit testing and end-to-end testing using tools such as Jest, Vitest, and Playwright.
- Experience shipping and maintaining production software, including automated tests.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, independent execution, communication, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing skills.
- A careful, user-focused approach to improving developer tools and experiences.
- Preferred experience includes build systems or CI, test frameworks, faster or more reliable testing, coding agents, automated code review or testing, reliable and secure releases, and using logs, metrics, or traces.
Benefits
- Equity, 401(k) match, competitive compensation, and financial coaching.
- Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching.
- Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and a $500 wellness stipend.
- A $2,000 learning stipend and ongoing professional development.
- Remote and office support including internet, commuting benefits, and free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office.
- Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
- Team outings and referral bonuses; listed benefits 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.