Engineering Manager, Handshake
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2 days a week in office
The career platform for Gen Z
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The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
More information about location
2 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
- 2+ years of experience managing a technical team in a people leadership role
- 5+ years of experience in Backend Engineering with one or more programming languages (Ruby, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
- Demonstrable experience operating distributed services in production environments
- Know-how and success working cross-functionally to drive impactful, product-level outcomes
- If you’re passionate about leading teams, building impactful products, and helping scale a global platform that empowers millions of students and their careers, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Handshake is hiring an experienced Engineering Manager for our Analytics & Integrations team to shape the future of career discovery for Generation Z
- You’ll lead a team building powerful embedded analytics, data-rich APIs, and seamless integrations connecting universities, students and employers across our emerging career social network
- Combining your technical depth with inspiring leadership, you’ll ensure millions of students across the globe find meaningful jobs and launch careers with confidence
- Build, lead, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, developing their technical and leadership skills; clearly define growth paths and motivate towards impactful outcomes
- Champion a data-driven product culture, expanding the capabilities of our embedded analytics and employer integrations products—critical data sources fueling our applied AI and ML initiatives that shape student experiences
- Partner closely with key stakeholders across Handshake including Product Management, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and go-to-market teams, defining clear, ambitious, and measurable goals to enhance data accessibility, quality, and integration reliability at scale
- Guide technical decisions and provide technical coaching, helping tech leads to define and prioritize our product and 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
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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