Senior Growth Software Engineer — Onsite SF

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in a fast-growing company

401(k) matching and financial wellness

Parental leave and fertility benefits

Medical, dental, and vision

Learning stipend

Free lunch/gym in SF office

Flexible PTO and holidays

Team outings and referral bonuses

Job summary

Handshake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Growth team to build products connecting millions of students with employers. You’ll drive technical initiatives, shape team direction, and deliver scalable solutions in a fast-growing career platform in SF.

This onsite, five-days-a-week role partners with PMs and Data Scientists to translate growth hypotheses into tangible experiments and robust systems, mentoring engineers toward technical excellence and durable, measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Backend and/or full-stack development experience.
• Experience building or working within experimentation platforms (e.g., feature flagging, A/B testing frameworks).
• Track record of shipping iteratively and learning from real user data.
• Strong collaboration skills with PMs, designers, and data scientists.
• Growth mindset: curiosity about why something worked or didn't.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship experiments across the user funnel – onboarding, activation, retention, notifications.
• Architect and scale distributed systems to support millions of users.
• Partner with Product Managers and Data Scientists to translate growth hypotheses into technical designs and shippable experiments.
• Mentor and elevate engineers across the team.
• Balance speed and rigor – know when to move fast with a lightweight test and when a feature needs production-grade durability.

Skills

5+ years experience

Backend development

Full-stack development

Experimentation platforms

Collaboration skills

Growth mindset

Tools

Ruby on Rails

GraphQL

React

Job description

Handshake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Growth team to build products connecting millions of students with employers. You’ll drive technical initiatives, shape team direction, and deliver scalable solutions in a fast-growing career platform in SF.

This onsite, five-days-a-week role partners with PMs and Data Scientists to translate growth hypotheses into tangible experiments and robust systems, mentoring engineers toward technical excellence and durable, measurable impact.