Senior Engineering Manager, Handshake
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$200-275k
+Equity
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3 days a week in office
The career platform for Gen Z
Job no longer available
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-275k
+Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 4+ years experience managing a technical team, 5+ years in technical leadership roles, 8+ years in software engineering
- Experience managing multiple teams and managing managers
- 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
- Experience working closely with Data teams, including Machine Learning and relevance
- We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single one of these qualifications
What the job involves
- Handshake is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager reporting into our Co-Founder, Ben Christensen, to help us deliver a world-class consumer experience
- In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team (including product, design, marketing, machine learning engineers, and many others) to deliver a roadmap that helps students grow their careers through content and community and transforms Handshake into Gen Z’s professional social network
- 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
- 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
- Foster and develop strong consumer habits in the ways we build, creating high-quality products through iterative approaches, along with building strong hypotheses and experimentation
- Partner closely with key stakeholders across Handshake, including Design, Product Management, Machine Learning/Relevance and strategic business partners to define clear, ambitious, attainable, metric-oriented goals for their team
- Guide 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
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 17M active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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