About Handshake

Handshake is building the career network for the AI economy, backed by the largest and most trusted job network on the internet. As the only three-sided job marketplace connecting 18 million knowledge workers, 1,500 educational institutions, and 1 million employers, Handshake powers career discovery, hiring, and upskilling—from first internships to full-time roles, freelance work to gig work, and beyond.

Founded in 2014, we’ve built the most trusted platform for early talent—owning the college-to-career market and powering nearly every career center. Today we’re building on that foundation to help students and early professionals upskill or reskill for the future.

Now’s a great time to join Handshake. Here’s why:

• Category Leader: Over 92% coverage across US universities & 77% of total US university student population.

• Proven Market Demand: Deep employer partnerships across Fortune 500s and the world’s leading AI research labs.

• World-Class Team: Leadership from Scale AI, Open AI, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, just to name a few.

• Capitalized & Scaling: $434M raised with a $175M+ run rate.

About the Role

As a Staff Engineer on the Employer Revenue team, you'll be a key technical leader building products that enable employers to hire early talent. Your work will power Handshake’s self-serve employer growth strategy—directly fueling our company’s impact and success. You’ll partner closely with Engineering management to drive execution on critical projects, mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and ensure technical excellence across the stack.

• Act as a technical leader across a cross-functional product squad focused on self-serve employer growth and monetization

• Lead the delivery of high-impact, cross-team initiatives that elevate the employer experience and revenue outcomes

• Own and evolve the architecture for critical services that support employer workflows such as job creation, job promotion, pricing and packaging, payments, and more

• Translate business strategy into technical direction by collaborating closely with Product, Design, Data, and Go-To-Market partners

• Establish engineering best practices for quality, reliability, and scalability across the org

• Mentor engineers and help shape a culture of technical rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Navigate ambiguity, assess tradeoffs, and make realistic decisions that balance long-term scalability with immediate impact

Desired Capabilities

• Track record of leading high-impact projects from concept through delivery in dynamic, product-oriented environments

• Comfortable communicating and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders

• Robust backend expertise and experience building performant, scalable systems

• Full-stack fluency; comfortable working across the stack and collaborating with design, product, and go-to-market functions

• Knowledge with modern engineering practices including observability and monitoring, CI/CD, testing, and code quality standards

• Well-developed product sensibility—you care deeply about user experience and business impact, not just the underlying technology

• Interest for mentoring other engineers and improving an organization’s capabilities through clear technical communication and high standards

• Bonus: experience building and scaling B2B SaaS

Perks

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and 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, $500 wellness stipend

📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development

💻 Remote & Office: Stipends for home office setup, internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days, winter #ShakeBreak where our whole office closes for a week!

🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

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