Helping all students and recent grads find their next opportunity.
Technology • Education • HR • internet • careers
3 days ago
🔄 Hybrid – San Francisco
Helping all students and recent grads find their next opportunity.
Technology • Education • HR • internet • careers
• Handshake is looking to hire experienced engineering managers to join our consumer teams. • You will lead, grow, and support the engineers building our customer-facing products. • You will work on complex technical challenges and enable millions of students and job-seekers to connect with employers through Handshake’s platform. • Create a direct impact in the world by helping Handshake to democratize the opportunity for our millions of students. • Work in an impressive innovative environment with many growth and career development opportunities. • Grow and scale a team, hiring top talent focusing on DEI. • Help to define our culture and processes, not only as a team but also as an organization. • Successfully manage performance; mentoring and coaching software engineers, supporting both high and underperforming individuals. • Partner closely with key stakeholders across Handshake, including Design, Product Management, and strategic business partners to define clear, ambitious, attainable, metric-oriented goals for their team. • Participate in technical decisions and provide technical coaching, helping tech leads to define and prioritize engineering roadmap. • Lead with empathy as you help us nurture a culture of growth, inclusion, and belonging.
• Build, lead, and develop successfully a team of software engineers from all levels (from junior to senior) defining their career development plans, setting specific goals, and motivating them to achieve results as part of their growth. • Works cross-functionally to define, drive and track product-level success. • 2+ years experience managing a technical team, 3+ years in technical leadership roles, 7+ years in software engineering. • Demonstrated experience working with or across other engineering teams to ship features or technical improvements. • Experience working as an, and managing, Full-Stack engineer(s), with either web or mobile clients. • Experience working with any or all of: Ruby/Rails, Go, Python, Javascript/React, and Swift/SwiftUI. • Experience working with any or all of: ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgresQL, SideKiq, and GCP Pub/Sub, DataFlow, and Spanner.
• Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company. • 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth 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 $2,000/£1,500/€1,850 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 office-based employees). • Free lunch provided twice a week across all offices. • Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake. • 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year. • All full-time US-based 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 one-week period of Collective Time Off. • Family support: We partner with Milk Stork to provide comprehensive 100% employer-sponsored lactation support to traveling parents and guardians. Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. • 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. • 25 days of annual leave + 5 days of a winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off across the company. • 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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