21 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex full-stack initiatives from idea through architecture, launch, and iteration.
- Build AI-powered sourcing, automated outreach, recruiting integrations, and employer-facing hiring experiences.
- Develop monetization and growth experiences and run A/B tests to improve engagement, conversion, and hiring outcomes.
- Architect scalable and reliable systems across frontend, backend, and integrations.
- Partner with product, design, and data to translate customer needs into effective products.
- Improve engineering quality through code reviews, mentorship, and ownership of production systems.
Requirements
- Proven experience owning complex products from idea through launch and iteration.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills with proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing scalable architectures and reliable distributed systems.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, shifting priorities, and rapid experimentation.
- Pragmatic technical decision-making and a high standard for maintainable, production-quality code.
- Clear communication, collaborative leadership, and confidence challenging assumptions and surfacing blockers.
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude.
- Preferred experience includes AI-powered products, LLM applications, recruiting agents, product-led growth, A/B testing, Stripe, payments, billing, monetization, recruiting tools, SaaS integrations, promoted-content systems, attribution, or customer-facing analytics.
Benefits
- Equity, competitive compensation, 401(k) match, financial coaching, and a $500 wellness stipend.
- Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching, medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
- $2,000 learning stipend and ongoing professional development.
- Internet support, commuting benefits, free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office.
- Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
- Team outings and referral bonuses.
- Full-time US employee benefits; the role is five days a week onsite in San Francisco.
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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.