Engineering Manager, Handshake
Consumer Product
$205-225k
Plus equity
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$205-225k
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- Build, lead, and develop successfully a team of software engineers from all levels (from junior to senior) defining their career development plans, setting specific goals, and motivating them to achieve results as part of their growth
- Works cross-functionally to define, drive and track product-level success
- 2+ years experience managing a technical team, 3+ years in technical leadership roles, 7+ years in software engineering
- Demonstrated experience working with or across other engineering teams to ship features or technical improvements
- Experience working as an, and managing, Full-Stack engineer(s), with either web or mobile clients
- Experience working with any or all of: Ruby/Rails, Go, Python, Javascript/React, and Swift/SwiftUI
- Experience working with any or all of: ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgresQL, SideKiq, and GCP Pub/Sub, DataFlow, and Spanner
What the job involves
- Handshake is looking to hire an experienced Engineering Manager to join our Employer Growth Team
- Lead, grow, and support the engineers building our customer-facing products
- Work on complex technical challenges and enable millions of students and job-seekers to connect with employers through Handshake’s platform
- Create a direct impact in the world by helping Handshake to democratize the opportunity for our millions of students
- Work in an impressive innovative environment with many growth and career development opportunities
- Grow and scale a team, hiring top talent focusing on DEI
- Help to define our culture and processes, not only as a team but also as an organization
- Build, lead, and successfully develop a team of software engineers from all levels; defining their career development plans, setting specific goals, and motivating them to achieve results as part of their growth
- Successfully manage performance; mentoring and coaching software engineers, supporting both high and underperforming individuals
- Partner closely with key stakeholders across Handshake, including Design, Product Management, and strategic business partners to define clear, ambitious, attainable, metric-oriented goals for their team
- Participate in technical decisions and provide technical coaching, helping tech leads to define and prioritize engineering roadmap
- Lead with empathy as you help us nurture a culture of growth, inclusion, and belonging
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 12 million active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- 💰Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company
- 🍼16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents
- 💝Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support
- 💻Handshake offers $500/£360 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home
- 📚Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500 stipend for you to grow your skills and career
- 🏦401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year
- 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 8 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Summer and Winter #ShakeBreak, two one-week periods of Collective Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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