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 non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

Your impact

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.

You will have opportunities to:

• 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

Your role

• Build, lead, and successfully develop a team of software engineers from all levels; defining their career development plans, setting specific goals, and motivating them to achieve results as part of their growth

• 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

Your experience

• 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

Compensation range

$205,000 - $225,000

Want to learn more about what it's like to work at Handshake? Check out these interviews from our team members!

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based 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, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look at Handshake. With our hybrid-work 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. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

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