Senior Software Engineer, Growth

The role

You will build products that connect millions of students with employers. You will design and ship experiments across the user funnel and architect distributed systems.

What you will do

• Design, build, and ship experiments across the user funnel
• Architect and scale distributed systems to support millions of users
• Partner with Product Managers and Data Scientists to translate growth hypotheses into technical designs
• Mentor and elevate engineers across the team
• Balance speed and rigor

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong fundamentals in backend and/or full-stack development (e.g., Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, or equivalent)
• Experience building or working within experimentation platforms
• A track record of shipping iteratively and learning from real user data
• Strong collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Exposure to consumer-facing or growth-focused products
• Background in notification, acquisition, user authentication/authorization at scale
• Background in mobile growth (iOS/Android) alongside web
• Familiarity with LLM-powered features or AI-assisted product experiences
• Prior experience in high-growth or rapidly scaling environments

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match
• Competitive compensation
• Financial coaching
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Parental coaching
• Medical, dental, and vision
• Mental health support
• Wellness stipend
• Learning stipend
• Ongoing development

About the company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, they started Handshake AI to work with frontier AI lab researchers.