Senior Software Engineer, Content and Community â Social Feed
Senior Software Engineer, Content and Community â Social Feed
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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 through dynamic socialmediastyle feeds helping students build valuable professional networks and engage with personalized relevant content.
This is an opportunity to work on impactful missiondriven projects that democratize access to opportunities utilizing 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 feeddriven content community engagement and personalized recommendations on the Handshake platform.
- Develop impactful content and feed solutions: Build maintain and scale highquality highperformance backend and frontend systems that support content creation sharing and collaboration within the platform.
- Shape the roadmap: Utilize your experience to contribute to product roadmaps help define priorities and provide technical leadership on key projects that impact feeddriven 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 with a particular focus on social feed performance and relevance.
- 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 define and experiment with hypotheses to optimize the platform driving higher user engagement and satisfaction particularly with features related to content discovery and social feeds.
- 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 .
- 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.
- Youve built and worked in social media or feedbased platforms.
- 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 with knowledge of social feed and user engagement behaviors.
- Mentorship: Experienced 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 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.
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 US 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.
- Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2000 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.
- 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 purchases such as fitness classes gym memberships workfromhome setup and more.
Looking for more Explore our mission values and comprehensive US benefits at 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
