Handshake
Senior Software Engineer, Operator Experience
$225K–$250K
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Builds internal products, automation, and workflows that help Handshake operators run business operations more efficiently and reliably.
What you'll do
- Partner with operators to understand workflows and translate needs into technical requirements.
- Design, build, roll out, and iterate on internal tools and automations, leading projects end to end.
- Collaborate across teams, improve engineering practices, and mentor other engineers.
What they ask for
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including empathetic partnership with non-engineering teams.
- Experience building internal tools, workflow systems, or operational automation, or in analogous customer-embedded roles.
- Strong engineering judgment in system design, abstraction, and avoiding over-building.
- Track record delivering iterative improvements in ambiguous environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow/backlog systems, intake, and operational analytics.
- Experience building knowledge-work operations tooling or working in a player-coach environment.
Pay
$225K – $250K (base salary)
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