Senior Software Engineer Content and Community
Senior Software Engineer Content and Community
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$ 180000 - 220000
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Job Description
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 nontraditional backgrounds historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
Your impact
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Content and Community team youll play a critical role in enhancing Handshakes platform for students jobseekers and employers. Your work will directly contribute to shaping the experiences that connect millions of students to career opportunities all while driving user engagement and fostering a thriving community. Youll develop systems that support content creation discovery and sharing within the Handshake ecosystem helping students build valuable professional networks.
This is an opportunity to work on impactful missiondriven projects that democratize access to opportunity working with cuttingedge technologies and scaling systems to handle millions of users.
Your role
As a Senior Software Engineer your daytoday will involve collaboration and impact across multiple domains:
- Collaborate crossfunctionally: Partner closely with product managers designers and other engineers to build and scale new features for content discovery community engagement and personalized recommendations for users on the Handshake platform.
- Develop impactful content solutions: Build maintain and scale highquality highperformance backend and frontend systems that support content creation sharing and collaboration within the platform.
- Shape the roadmap: Use your experience to contribute to product roadmaps help define priorities and provide technical leadership on key projects impacting the community and content features.
- Drive architectural decisions: Own the endtoend architecture of the content and community platform designing scalable reliable and efficient systems that support millions of users.
- Mentor and guide: Support junior engineers by providing technical mentorship reviewing code and helping foster a culture of collaboration and growth within the team.
- Contribute to experimentation and optimization: Help to define and experiment with hypotheses to optimize the platform driving higher user engagement and satisfaction.
- Ensure quality: Write clean maintainable and testable code. Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful feedback to maintain highquality standards.
Your experience
Were seeking candidates who bring:
- Experience: 7 years as a fullstack engineer with a strong focus on both backend and frontend development.
- Backend skills: Proficiency in backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails Go Python or Node.js.
- Frontend skills: Strong experience with modern web technologies like React JavaScript or TypeScript and familiarity with mobile technologies (Swift React Native).
- Building scalable systems: Experience designing and building complex scalable systems that handle high traffic and large volumes of usergenerated content.
- Collaborative mindset: Proven ability to work effectively across teams including product design data and marketing.
- Consumerfocused development: Demonstrated experience in developing userfacing features that prioritize usability performance and engagement.
- Mentorship: Experience mentoring junior engineers helping them grow both technically and professionally.
- Strong technical communication: Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Compensation range
$180000 $220000
For cash compensation we set standard ranges for allU.S.based rolesbased 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.
About us
Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students alumni employers and career educators Handshakes network is where career advice and discovery turn into first second and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforcefrom Fortune 500 to federal agencies school districts to startups healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where youre going not where youve been.
When it comes to our workforce strategy weve thought deeply about how worklife should look at Handshake. With our hybridwork model employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York London and Berlin.
What we offer
At Handshake well give you the tools to feel healthy happy and secure.
Benefits below apply to employees in fulltime positions.
- Equity and ownership in a fastgrowing company.
- 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for nonbirth giving parents.
- Comprehensive medical dental and vision policies including LGTBQ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
- Handshake offers $500/360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
- Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2000/1500/1850 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
- Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
- Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
- Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for officebased employees).
- Free lunch provided twice a week across all offices.
- Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.
(USspecific benefits in addition to the first section)
- 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollarfordollar match on 1 of deferred salary up to a maximum of $1200 per year.
- All fulltime USbased Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition we offer 8 standardized holidays and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly we have a Winter #ShakeBreak a oneweek period of Collective Time Off.
- Family support: We partner with Milk Stork to provide comprehensive 100 employersponsored lactation support to traveling parents and guardians. Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly.
(UKspecific benefits in addition to the first section)
- Pension Scheme: Handshake will provide you with a workplace pension where you will make contributions based on 5 of your salary. Handshake will pay the equivalent of 3 towards your pension plan subject to qualifying earnings limits.
- Up to 25 days of vacation to encourage people to reset recharge and refresh in addition to 8 bank holidays throughout the year.
- Regular offsites each year to bring the team together opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco.
- Discounts across various high street retailers cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake UK employees.
(Germanyspecific benefits in addition to the first section)
- 25 days of annual leave 5 days of a winter #ShakeBreak a oneweek period of Collective Time Off across the company.
- Regular offsites each year to bring the team together opportunity to travel to our HQ in San Francisco once a year.
- Urban sports club membership offering access to a diverse network of fitness and wellness facilities.
- Discounts across various high street retailers cinemas and other social activities exclusively for Handshake Germany employees.
Looking for more Explore our mission values and comprehensive US benefits atjoinhandshake/careers.
Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation please let your recruiter know during initial communications.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
