6 months ago
Base Salary
$265k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of consumer-facing features that improve engagement and streamline student-employer connections.
- Architect and scale distributed systems supporting millions of users with high availability and performance.
- Influence technical direction across teams by aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
- Mentor and develop engineers while fostering technical excellence.
- Champion engineering practices that improve product quality and team efficiency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of large-scale, complex systems.
- Demonstrated staff-level scope and experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
- Expertise building and scaling distributed systems, preferably for consumer platforms or social products.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript and experience building maintainable, high-quality production systems.
- Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and modern system design principles.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and elevating engineering culture.
- Extra-credit experience with search, recommendations, ranking systems, personalization, user identity knowledge graphs, entity resolution, real-time inference, AI-powered systems, LLM-based applications, or high-growth environments.
Benefits
- Equity in a fast-growing company and 401(k) matching are offered.
- Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, wellness stipend, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching are provided.
- Learning stipend and ongoing professional development are available.
- The role supports remote work and includes internet and commuting benefits, plus free lunch and gym access in the San Francisco office.
- Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days are provided.
- Team outings and referral bonuses are offered.
- Benefits listed 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.