Handshake
Software Engineer I, Promotions
San Francisco, CA. Posted 15 days ago
The role
You will build products and systems that help employers reach talent and job seekers discover opportunities. You will work across the full stack on platforms spanning auctions, promoted-content delivery, event tracking, applicant attribution, and analytics.
What you will do
- Own full-stack Promotions initiatives from design through launch.
- Build scalable, reliable systems for promoted-content delivery, auctions, event tracking, attribution, and analytics.
- Strengthen applicant attribution and customer-facing analytics.
- Use customer feedback and performance data to measure impact and guide product iteration.
- Raise engineering quality through production ownership, testing, observability, code reviews, and mentorship.
Required qualifications
- 1-3 years of full-stack engineering experience.
- Proven ownership of complex software projects.
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Go, or Python.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
- Clear communication, collaborative technical leadership, and a pragmatic approach to quality and delivery.
- Strong debugging skills and attention to detail.
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude.
Nice to have
- Experience with advertising technology, auctions, marketplaces, or recommendation systems.
- Background in attribution, analytics, event-driven architectures, or data pipelines.
- Experience building employer-facing or SaaS products and using experimentation to improve customer outcomes.
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
- $500 wellness stipend
- $2,000 learning stipend
- Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
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.