Handshake
Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience
$265K–$295K
San Francisco, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 20, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and lead consumer-facing products and scalable systems that connect students with employers on Handshake’s career platform.
What you'll do
- Lead design and development of consumer features that improve engagement and student-employer connections.
- Architect distributed systems for millions of users, with high availability and performance.
- Shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering large-scale, complex systems.
- Experience operating at staff-level scope and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
- Expertise building and scaling distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript; understanding of cloud platforms and modern system design.
Nice to have
- Experience with search, recommendations, ranking, personalization, identity knowledge graphs, or real-time inference.
- Experience building AI-powered systems, including LLM-based applications, or working in high-growth environments.
Pay
$265K – $295K (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, JavaScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, LLM
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