Technical Lead Manager, Handshake
Frontend Infrastructure / Platform
$205-255k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$205-255k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3-5 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
- You have 2+ years of engineering management experience, ideally on frontend or platform teams
- You’ve led teams building and maintaining complex web applications and design systems
- You stay technical and are comfortable digging into code, especially in React and TypeScript
- You’re invested in your team’s growth and take pride in helping others succeed
- You value empathy, communication, and inclusive collaboration across disciplines
- You thrive in fast-moving environments and are excited by the opportunity to shape foundational systems
What the job involves
- Handshake is building a diverse team of dynamic engineers who care deeply about delivering high-quality, high-impact products. We're looking for a Technical Lead Manager to lead our Frontend Platform team—a group focused on the systems, tools, and libraries that power all user-facing experiences at Handshake
- In this role, you’ll be both a technical leader and managing a small team, responsible for supporting and growing a team of 3 full-time engineers and 2 contractors. You’ll lead by example, contributing directly to code and architecture while guiding your team through mentorship, career development, and delivery excellence
- You’ll partner closely with designers, product managers, and engineers across the org to ensure our frontend foundation scales with the company’s growth and enables developers to ship high-quality experiences quickly and confidently
- Lead and support a high-performing team of frontend engineers through coaching, feedback, and development opportunities
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define and execute on a vision for frontend platform architecture, tools, and standards
- Drive technical strategy and execution, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability
- Set clear expectations, align the team around goals, and ensure timely delivery of impactful work
- Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture, code reviews, and high-leverage projects when appropriate
- Champion engineering quality, accessibility, and developer experience across our frontend stack
- Guide the design and rollout of a new shared component library across multiple products
- Improve frontend build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and local dev workflows to reduce friction for developers
- Lead adoption of new technologies that improve scalability, performance, and user experience
- Establish and evangelize frontend best practices, including accessibility, testing, and documentation
- Technologies you'll work with:
- React, Styled Components, TypeScript, Storybook
- Redux, GraphQL
- Webpack, ESBuild, Rollup
- 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
- 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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