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
Over the past few years weve built a highly rated and delightful mobile experience that helps students discover jobs attend events and connect with peers. Now were looking for a Staff Android Engineer to help us take it to the next level.
In this role youll lead the design and development of highimpact userfacing features while influencing the broader mobile strategy at Handshake. Youll work across disciplinesfrom early discovery through architecture implementation and deliverypartnering with product design and engineering to create meaningful and trusted experiences for our users.
As a technical leader youll shape the foundation of Android development and help evolve the culture of our growing mobile team. Your work will empower Gen Z students to explore career paths build professional communities and showcase their identities with confidence.
Your role
- Drive highimpact features that deepen engagement build community and elevate the student experience.
- Lead architecture and technical direction for the Android codebase ensuring longterm scalability performance and maintainability.
- Mentor and support engineers across the team through thoughtful code reviews technical design and career growth.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with design product and other engineering teams to shape and deliver endtoend experiences.
- Influence mobile strategy through a strong product mindset and deep empathy for our users goals.
- Advance Android culture at Handshake by championing best practices contributing to shared tooling and fostering a strong developer experience.
Your experience
- 10 years of experience developing Android applications in production environments.
- Expert in Kotlin Jetpack Compose Android Studio and modern Android app architecture.
- Deep experience with Android 15 and evolving platform capabilities.
- Proven ability to own complex technical initiatives from ideation to launch.
- Experience mentoring engineers and scaling technical teams.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with a passion for usercentered development.
- Handson experience with:
- UI design patterns and responsive layouts
- Architecture patterns like MVVM and MVC
- Data persistence RESTful APIs and GraphQL
Bonus areas of expertise
- Experience building or contributing to social media or communitybased apps.
- Familiarity with highquality video/image workflows (e.g. uploads processing playback).
- Contributions to design systems or reusable component libraries.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines monitoring tools play store release process and mobile performance tuning.
Compensation range
$204000 $255000
For cash compensation we set standard ranges for all 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 (unless noted in the specific job posting). 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 (not Contract) 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.
- 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 3x 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 13 standardized holidays and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly we have a Winter #ShakeBreak a oneweek period of Collective Time Off.
- Handshake offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.
- Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with Maven Clinic to provide a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses related to fertility and family forming!
- Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchasessuch as fitness classes gym memberships workfromhomesetup and more.
(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.
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