Senior Software Engineer, Employer

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We are thrilled to announce Handshake’s $200M Series F funding round. At Handshake, we believe that a career opportunity shouldn’t be determined by who you know or what you’ve done. It’s about what you can - and will - do. Your future, not your past. Our Series F fundraise and new valuation of $3.5B will fuel our next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.

Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. Handshake’s community includes 20 million students and young alumni around the world from 1,400 educational institutions, including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 650,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, nonprofits, and even sports teams like the LA Dodgers. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London and teammates working globally.

Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply. 

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

What does a Senior Software Engineer do at Handshake?

Handshake is building a diverse team of dynamic engineers who value creating a high quality, high impact product. We are looking for Senior Engineers who are excellent generalists and have a strong focus on product development. You'll be working on small, multi-functional teams with other engineers, designers, and product managers.

Employer Engineering is focused on building the experience that Employers on our platform use to attract the best early career talent to their roles. Our teams tackle a wide variety of interesting technical challenges: 

  • We support large scale messaging campaigns, frictionless search, filtering, and segmentation of our millions of candidates. 
  • We’re building self-service seat management and payment processing, to allow employers to level up their experience and gain access to premium features quickly.
  •  We support a variety of in-house video conferencing experiences, including virtual career fairs, informal coffee chats, and interview sessions. 
  • And we surface key insights and analytics to Employers to allow them to measure the value of their efforts within our product. 

As we grow, our development teams are working on modularizing our systems to allow for more precise scaling and autonomous development, while also working to build a more seamless and intuitive experience for our users.

Here are some projects we're excited for you to work on 

We're focused on innovation within the core experience for students, employers, and universities, constantly improving our technical foundation and user experience. This role on the Employer Engineering team will include:

  • Collaborating with the other engineers, product partners, and designers to build data and analytics focused user interfaces and user experiences for employers looking to hire entry level talent
  • Mentoring and learning from your peers to grow as a team
  • Developing solutions to drive success for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small local businesses
  • Developing and deploying large-scale web applications safely and reliably

What we look for

  • You’re motivated by taking projects from inception to completion, and are outcome oriented.
  • You love to build high-quality web products in a dynamic development environment
  • You have 5+ years experience in building consumer-facing web applications in a dynamic development environment.
  • You enjoy highly collaborative environments, and working with a small team to achieve a common goal.
  • You appreciate good design and friendly user-experiences.
  • You are proud of your craft, and enjoy and value clean code that scales to keep large teams productive.

Bonus area of expertise

  • You have experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale backend systems.
  • You are interested in the 'Full Stack' but have passion and knowledge in one or more areas of the web stack.
  • You have experience in one or more of the core technologies in our web stack.

Technologies you'll work with

  • React, TypeScript, Webpack, Redux
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Kubernetes, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Airflow
Compensation Range

$160,638 - $222,727

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Benefits:At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

  • Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
  • Hub-Based Remote Work: Handshakers can enjoy the flexibility of remote work whilst ensuring in-person collaboration, and team experiences remain possible.
  • Financial Management with Origin: We provide you with a professional financial planner via Origin to gain a better understanding of making the most of your compensation, equity, benefits, and perks.
  • Paid Parental Leave: All new parents at Handshake (both birth and non-birth giving) are encouraged to take time to focus on their growing family and are eligible for paid family leave. US Handshakers are provided up to 16 weeks of paid family leave for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents.
  • Mental Health Assistance: We are here to support you in every step of your mental health journey; our benefits include Employee Assistance Programs that offer counseling support for those eligible. 
  • Home Office Stipend: Handshake offers $500/£360 for you to spend on setting up a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
  • Learning: Learning & Development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
  • Team Bonding: Regularly scheduled virtual company-wide and team events! Once it’s safe, we’ll provide meaningful connection points throughout the year for Handshakers to build community and meet teammates in person.
  • Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!

(US Handshakers)

  • 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future. Launching Spring 2022, Handshake will offer a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.
  • Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage.
  • 2022 Time Off: All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. We also offer 8 standardized holidays, 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off, and 2 one-week periods of Collective Time Off (7/4-7/8/2022) and (12/26-12/30/2022).

(UK Handshakers) 

  • Pension: Handshake matches 3% of your salary towards your pension scheme. 
  • Healthcare: Handshake's comprehensive healthcare policy covers 100% of employee premiums & 100% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • 2022 Time Off: Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset, recharge, and refresh, in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.

Benefits above apply to employees in full-time positions.

Looking for more? Explore our comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

 

Interested in what Handshake’s San Francisco HQ is like when we’re together? Check out this video: 

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