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Software Engineer, Handshake AI

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10 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$158k - $175k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own features end-to-end across frontend and backend, from technical design through production and iteration.
  • Build scalable full-stack systems for search, discovery, matching, and onboarding user journeys.
  • Ship backend APIs, asynchronous workflows, and frontend experiences with strong reliability and performance.
  • Contribute to architecture discussions and establish reusable engineering patterns.
  • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
  • Partner with product managers and designers to turn ambiguous requirements into polished user experiences.
  • Proactively address technical debt, system reliability gaps, and performance bottlenecks.

Requirements

  • 1–5 years of professional software engineering experience building full-stack applications.
  • Strong proficiency with TypeScript across frontend and backend surfaces.
  • Hands-on experience with React, Next.js, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails.
  • Solid command of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, and thoughtful data modeling.
  • Ability to own features independently, drive them to completion, collaborate cross-functionally, navigate ambiguity, and make sound tradeoffs.
  • Extra-credit experience includes AI-powered products, conversational interfaces, agentic frameworks such as OpenAI APIs, Temporal or asynchronous job systems, marketplaces, matching systems, multi-step onboarding flows, AWS, GCP, deployment pipelines, high-growth technology companies, design systems, or component libraries.

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, and mental health support; $500 wellness stipend; $2,000 learning stipend; internet, commuting support, free lunch and gym in the San Francisco office; flexible PTO, 15 holidays and 2 flex days; team outings and referral bonuses.
  • Full-time US employee benefits apply; the role is based in San Francisco and requires 5 days per week in-office.