Senior Frontend Engineer, Handshake
Design System and Platform
$180-220k
+ Equity
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
$180-220k
+ Equity
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
- Proven experience over 6+ years designing and contributing to Design Systems and Component Libraries, enabling consistent, accessible, and developer-friendly user experiences
- Strong foundation in building scalable, high-performance frontend platforms that support rapid development across teams and enable long-term maintainability
- Experienced in driving successful architectural decisions across frontend systems that improve reliability, scalability, and development efficiency
- You have a strong sense of ownership and a passion for efficiency and writing clean, high-quality code that scales and keeps large teams productive
- You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers
- You appreciate strong documentation and repeatable procedures that improve team clarity and velocity
- You are proud of your craft, and enjoy and value clean, maintainable code that enables scalable team contributions
- You have experience in building consumer-facing web applications while supporting internal development in fast-moving environments
What the job involves
- This role is for a Frontend Software Engineer who will be reporting to the Engineering Manager for the Frontend Platform team
- We are looking for a Frontend Engineer with demonstrated experience shipping high quality and accessible user experiences
- You will be supporting a team of talented engineers and designers by contributing to tools and libraries that are used by development teams and shipped to our users
- You will be working on a small multi-functional team with other engineers, designers and product managers
- Working with Designers to expand our existing Design System and Component Library that serve other teams
- Develop libraries and contribute in ways that impact every engineer and our customers
- Build tools to optimize the developer frontend work experience
- Consult, educate, and empower engineers as they build & ship innovative software
- Research, prototype and develop solutions in support of the adoption of new technologies
- React, Styled Components (JavaScript), TypeScript, and Storybook
- Redux, GraphQL
- Webpack, ESBuild, Rollup
- Evolving CI/CD Pipelines in GitHub and Netlify
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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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
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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