Staff Software Engineer, Employer Revenue

Your ImpactHandshake is building a diverse team of engineers who care deeply about building high-quality, high-impact products. We’re looking for Staff Engineers who combine strong technical breadth with product intuition and a collaborative mindset.As a Staff Engineer on the Employer Revenue team, you'll be a key technical leader building products that empower employers to hire early talent. Your work will power Handshake’s self-serve employer growth strategy—directly fueling our company’s impact and success. You’ll partner closely with Engineering leadership to drive execution on critical projects, mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and ensure technical excellence across the stack.Your RoleAct as a technical leader across a cross-functional product squad focused on self-serve employer growth and monetizationLead the delivery of high-impact, cross-team initiatives that elevate the employer experience and revenue outcomesOwn and evolve the architecture for critical services that support employer workflows such as job creation, job promotion, pricing and packaging, payments, and moreTranslate business strategy into technical direction by collaborating closely with Product, Design, Data, and Go-To-Market partnersEstablish engineering best practices for quality, reliability, and scalability across the orgMentor engineers and help shape a culture of technical rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement.Navigate ambiguity, assess tradeoffs, and make pragmatic decisions that balance long-term scalability with immediate impactYour ExperienceTrack record of leading high-impact projects from concept through delivery in fast-paced, product-oriented environmentsComfortable communicating and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholdersStrong backend expertise and experience building performant, scalable systemsFull-stack fluency; comfortable working across the stack and collaborating with design, product, and go-to-market functionsFamiliarity with modern engineering practices including observability and monitoring, CI/CD, testing, and code quality standardsStrong product sensibility—you care deeply about user experience and business impact, not just the underlying technologyPassion for mentoring other engineers and improving an organization’s capabilities through clear technical communication and high standardsBonus: experience building and scaling B2B SaaSTechnologies You'll Work WithRuby on RailsReact, TypeScript, Webpack, ReduxKubernetes, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch

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