Senior Frontend/ Full Stack Engineer, Handshake
$180-200k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
College career network and job board
Open for applications
College career network and job board
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
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
- Minimum 5 years of FE development experience
- You have a strong sense of ownership and a passion for efficiency and writing clean, high-quality code
- You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers
- You have experience building Component Libraries and working in Design Systems to build friendly user-experiences
- You appreciate strong documentation and procedures
- You are proud of your craft, and enjoy and value clean code that scales to keep large teams productive
- You have experience in building consumer-facing web applications in a dynamic development environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Frontend Engineer with demonstrated experience shipping high-quality and accessible user experiences
- You will be supporting a team of talented engineers and designers by contributing to tools and libraries that are used by development teams and shipped to our users
- You will work on a small multi-functional team with other engineers, designers and product managers
- Consult, educate, and empower other FrontEnd engineers as they build & ship innovative software
- Own product surfaces end-to-end, and build and ship high-quality and accessible consumer facing user-experiences
- Research, prototype and develop solutions in support of the adoption of new technologies
- Develop libraries and contribute in ways that impact every engineer and our customers
- Working with Designers to create a Component Library that services other teams
- Technologies you'll work with: React, Styled Components, TypeScript, Storybook, Redux, GraphQL, Webpack, ESBuild, Rollup, Evolving CI/CD Pipelines in GitHub and Netlify
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
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
Founders
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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