Handshake

Handshake

Senior Software Engineer, Allocation & Onboarding

San Francisco, CA · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningStakeholder ManagementLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Whether you're shipping customer-facing features, modernizing core infrastructure, or designing resilient architectures, your work will have a direct and lasting impact on both our users and our ability to innovate at scale.
  • This is a highly collaborative, high-impact role that requires deep partnership across engineering and business teams.
  • Success requires strong technical fundamentals, systems thinking, and excellent communication, along with the judgment to balance rapid execution with thoughtful long-term engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own core experiences across the fellow platform, including onboarding, fellow homepage, project opportunities, Design and build \ systems to power fellow allocation, helping evolve manual operational workflows into scalable platform capabilities.
  • Partner closely with Growth, Operations, Product, and ML to understand business processes and translate them into high-quality technical solutions.
  • Lead projects end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through rollout and continuous iteration.
  • Drive architectural improvements that reduce technical debt and establish scalable service layers as the platform continues to grow.
  • Balance speed and quality by making thoughtful engineering tradeoffs that support both immediate business needs and long-term maintainability.
  • Collaborate across teams to build reliable, secure systems that improve both the fellow and operator experience.
  • Passion for building products that directly impact customer experience at scale.

Requirements

  • Experience with AI-workflows and agentic infrastructure.
  • Strong proactive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous or urgent business needs into effective technical solutions.

Compensation

  • 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

Benefits

  • Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported-and thrive at work and in life.
  • The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
  • 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
  • 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
  • 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
  • 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, wellness stipend
  • 📚 Growth: Learning stipend, ongoing development
  • 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
  • Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers http://joinhandshake.com/careers.
  • Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions
  • Experience improving or modernizing existing systems, balancing rapid product development with long-term platform health.
  • 💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

Company info

  • Team outings & referral bonuses
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