Associate iOS Engineer

About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today we power 25 million job seekers 1 million employers and 1600 educational institutions.

In 2025 we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations publish benchmarks and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy at global scale with impact your friends family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers scientists operators and more from Palantir Meta Scale AI and former YC founders

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About the Role

Handshake is the career network for millions of students and early-career professionals and our iOS app is how many of them find their first job. Nearly one million students use the app every week to discover jobs connect with employers and attend career events.

Youd be joining a small iOS team of four senior engineers as our first Associate Engineer which means two things. First ownership: on a team this size you wont be handed tickets off someone elses backlog. Youll take features from concept to App Store launch on surfaces real students depend on. Second mentorship: every engineer around you is senior and investing in your growth is part of why this role exists. Youll have a named onboarding mentor deep code review and four experienced engineers whose job includes making you better. Were hiring at this level because we want to grow you: the path to Engineer I is something well be building toward together from day one.

We ship on a weekly release train to a mature well-guarded codebase with modular architecture a shared design system and strong testing and CI so you get the rare combination of moving fast and learning what good looks like. If you used Handshake to land your own first job you already know what this app means to students. This role is your chance to build it for the ones coming up behind you.

What Youll Do

• Own features end to end from product and design conversations through building testing launch and iterating on real usage data as part of a squad

• Build in Swift and SwiftUI (with UIKit where it lives today) inside an MVVM Coordinator architecture: youll write view models wire up GraphQL/REST services and ship UI on our internal design system

• Ship every week: feature flags staged rollouts and thorough code review from senior engineers on every PR

• Work on high-visibility consumer surfaces like jobs discovery career events and fairs and student profiles including the seasonal back-to-school moments when usage peaks

• Help build AI-powered experiences in the app and use AI tools daily in how you work; this team treats AI-assisted engineering as table stakes

• Write unit tests for your view models contribute to acceptance test coverage and care about the quality of what you ship

Desired Capabilities

• 0-1 years of professional iOS software engineering experience building and shipping production mobile applications.

• Youve shipped real iOS software to real users. A live App Store app is the gold standard but production features shipped during an internship or job a substantial public iOS project or a TestFlight app with actual users all count. Roughly 0-1 years of building iOS apps professionally or independently.

• You own your code. You can walk through something you built and explain why you structured it that way where it breaks and what youd redo. We use AI tools every day and expect you to and we expect you to fully understand every line you ship. Shipped is not the same as understood.

• You know your way around modern iOS fundamentals: Swift view models and MVVM (or similar patterns) networking and asynchronous code.

• You take initiative. Youve started something yourself iterated on user feedback or pushed a project further than anyone asked you to. You ask questions early and run with answers.

• You communicate clearly in PRs in design discussions and when youre stuck.

Extra Credit

• Consumer app experience: youve built for end users at scale rather than internal or B2B tools

• Experience with both SwiftUI and UIKit and moving between them

• Familiarity with GraphQL unit/UI testing (XCTest or similar) or CI/CD tooling like Fastlane

• A personal app currently live in the App Store

• Experience using analytics experimentation (A/B testing) or user feedback to decide what to build next

Perks

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supportedand 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 wellness stipend
Growth: Learning stipend ongoing development
Remote & Office: Internet commuting and free lunch/gym in our SF office
Time Off: Flexible PTO 15 holidays 2 flex days
Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

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