Senior Software Engineer, Handshake
Feed Relevance
$180-220k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Be an early applicant
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
Offers Equity
More information about location
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
- Feed and Ranking: Experience building or optimizing social feeds, ranking pipelines, real-time content delivery systems, feed infrastructure, and data pipelines, ideally focusing on relevance and personalization
- Scalable Systems Background: Contributing to the design and development of scalable, high-performance backend systems, including building data pipelines to refine and optimize machine learning models
- Backend Skills: Proficiency in Go, Elasticsearch, GraphQL, and search indexing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: A history of working closely with data, ML, product, and design teams to deliver impactful user experiences
- Technical Leadership: Experience fostering a culture of technical excellence and supporting the growth of engineering teams
- Strong Communication Skills: Clearly articulating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer on our Feed infrastructure team, you’ll have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in scaling one of the most impactful areas of our platform – the social feed
- This is a high-impact role where you’ll shape the experiences that connect millions of students with career opportunities
- You’ll work closely with data science and machine learning teams to optimize feed relevance, personalization, and ranking, ensuring the right content reaches the right users at the right time
- As a Senior Engineer, your day-to-day will involve collaboration and impact across multiple domains:
- Building and Scaling Feed Systems: Scaling feed infrastructure to deliver personalized, relevant content (ranking, retrieval, and recommendations)
- Collaborating with Data and ML Teams: Working closely with data scientists and ML engineers to build and deploy models that power recommendations, personalization, and feed infrastructure
- Optimizing and Iterating: Continuously testing and refining models, and improving overall performance, responsiveness, and user engagement
- Driving Platform Scalability: Designing systems to handle millions of users, including high-traffic, real-time content delivery, and scalable feed/data infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability
- Data Management/Flow: Developing data pipelines, enhancing data schemas, and managing data ingestion to leverage real-time, distributed data, ultimately strengthening feed infrastructure and engagement loops
- Shaping Product Direction: Leveraging data-driven insights to guide product roadmaps, prioritize features, create use cases, enable experimentation, recognize limitations, and make impactful decisions that enhance the feed experience
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
- đź’°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
- đź’ťComprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- đź’»Handshake offers $500/ÂŁ360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- đź“šGenerous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/ÂŁ1,500 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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