Software Engineer Intern, Handshake
$7,840 Per Month
3 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Posted today
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$7,840 Per Month
3 days a week in office
501-1000 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
- Have deep interest in building high quality web and mobile products
- You are interested in the 'Full Stack' but have passion and knowledge in one, or more areas of the stack
- You love good design and friendly user-experiences
- You have a healthy appetite for automation, testing and building robust distributed systems
- You are proud of your craft, and enjoy and value clean code that scales to keep large teams productive
- You have experience working with frontend JavaScript frameworks and methodologies
What the job involves
- You will be growing and developing your skills as an engineer
- Our program is tailored around your learning and development
- Building new features on top of our existing foundation to serve our customer/enterprise user base
- Working with our Product and Design teams to build an engaging student experience on both mobile and web for millions of students across the country
- Working alongside our top-notch engineering teams to build high-value, robust premium features
- Scaling out and refactoring existing systems in a services-oriented architecture
- Building college recruiting tools for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses
- Speccing, reviewing, developing, and deploying large-scale web applications safely and reliably
- Technologies you’ll work with: Ruby on Rails, Golang, GraphQL, SwiftUI, React, TypeScript, Webpack, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Firestore, Slack, Datadog, Bugsnag, and PagerDuty
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 12 million 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.
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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
- 💰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 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
- 🏦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 Summer and Winter #ShakeBreak, two one-week periods of Collective Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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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