Senior Software Engineer, Promotions

About Handshake

Handshake is building the career network for the AI economy, backed by the largest and most trusted job network on the internet. As the only three-sided job marketplace connecting 18 million knowledge workers, 1,500 educational institutions, and 1 million employers, Handshake powers career discovery, hiring, and upskilling—from first internships to full-time roles, freelance work to gig work, and beyond.

Founded in 2014, we’ve built the most trusted platform for early talent—owning the college-to-career market and powering nearly every career center. Today we’re building on that foundation to help students and early professionals upskill or reskill for the future.

Now’s a great time to join Handshake. Here’s why:

• Category Leader: Over 92% coverage across US universities & 77% of total US university student population.

• Proven Market Demand: Deep employer partnerships across Fortune 500s and the world’s leading AI research labs.

• World-Class Team: Leadership from Scale AI, Open AI, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, just to name a few.

• Capitalized & Scaling: $434M raised with a $175M+ run rate.

About the Role:

• Your day-to-day work will feature regular collaboration on a cross-functional team with a designer, product manager and other engineers. You will also engage frequently with engineers, support, marketing and data analysts across the organization.

• You will own, architect, and build features that shape the marketplace experience end-to-end—driving user engagement, improving trust, and unlocking growth across the platform.

• You will lead by example in maintaining a high standard of quality in your own work and in the feedback provided to peers in code review and architecture discussions.

• You will lend your technical knowledge and experience to influence the team’s roadmap and prioritization of innovation and operational health initiatives such as quality control and on-call.

• You will provide mentorship to engineers and unblock and support your team to meet deliverables.

• You will lead sizable individual projects and projects that require multiple engineers.

Desired Capabilities

• 5 years of experience as a full-stack engineer with a focus on backend, and am confident in driving architectural decisions on both frontend and backend.

• You have demonstrated success collaborating with partners in product, design and analytics to define, build, and ship great products and experiences.

• You have experience leading large projects from idea to high quality delivery.

• You act with empathy when working with fellow engineers and coworkers, and enjoy providing mentorship and guidance to enable and support your team.

• You strive for individual and team growth, proactively seeking feedback and identifying areas of the code, processes or procedures that need improvement.

• You are a strong communicator and can articulate technical concepts and rationale to audiences of varying technical knowledge levels.

Extra Credit

• You have worked with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Typescript, ReactJS, and PostgreSQL.

• You have worked on SMB SAAS products at scale.

• You demonstrate ownership-mentality and maintain a high degree of accountability for your work.

Perks

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and thrive at work and in life. The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

• 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

• 💰 Financial Wellness : 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

• 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching

• 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend

• 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development

• 💻 Remote & Office: Stipends for home office setup, internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

• 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days, winter #ShakeBreak where our whole office closes for a week!

• 🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers .