Software Engineer

The role

You will build products that help recruiting teams find talent, coordinate interviews and understand hiring performance. The work covers ATS integrations, recruiting analytics, scheduling and AI sourcing, from understanding customer needs through delivery and iteration.

What you will do

• Build and maintain integrations with leading Applicant Tracking Systems
• Help scale systems managing multiple terabytes of relational data
• Develop Talent Compass, the reporting and analytics product used by all paying customers
• Build scheduling tools: calendar and video conferencing integrations, candidate self-scheduling, time zone and interviewer workload logic
• Improve workflow templates, alerts, rescheduling automations and scheduling analytics
• Develop customer-facing features for the AI Sourcing Agent, covering a pool of over 800 million profiles
• Improve backend services, extend integrations, optimize database queries and build frontend reporting experiences
• Work with product managers, designers and other engineers on technical decisions

Required qualifications

• Take ownership from end to end, from problem definition through delivery and post-launch improvements
• Strong engineering fundamentals: maintainable software, technical tradeoffs, reliability, performance and scalability
• Comfortable working across the stack, with depth in one or more areas
• Work with product and design partners to understand workflows and customer needs
• Work independently and take initiative
• Make progress with incomplete information and adjust as priorities change
• Collaborate openly and respectfully, and accept feedback

Nice to have

• Experience with integrations, data-intensive applications, recruiting technology or AI-powered product features

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and equity
• 20 + 5 paid days off
• Additional health insurance
• Annual L&D stipend for learning and development
• Up to 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

Before you apply

• Role is based in the Sofia office and is not eligible for full-time remote work

About the company

Handshake connects job seekers, employers and educational institutions, and in 2025 started Handshake AI, an AI data business that works with frontier AI labs. The posting cites 25 million job seekers and over 1 million employers.