Senior Engineering Manager, Student (Matches)
From the start, we’ve made it our mission to break down barriers and create equitable access to great jobs. With our most recent round of funding, we’re expanding our mission to build a platform students love, that helps early talent of all backgrounds receive access to opportunities – no matter who they know or where they go to school. Learn more about Handshake’s $80M Series E funding round.
Handshake is the largest early career network, helping millions of students from all backgrounds get hired and launch their careers with no connections, experience, or luck required. The Handshake community includes 18 million students and young alumni (9 million active students & alumni) from 1,400 educational institutions including four-year colleges, community colleges, boot camps, and 290+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with 600,000+ employers recruiting on Handshake - from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London.
Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.
Your Impact:
Handshake is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, reporting to the Head of Student Engineering, to lead a growing Student Experience engineering team. In this role, you will be leading the development of Handshake’s Student Search functionality by improving the student in-app search experience, relevance and recommendations, and developing a leading Search Platform squad. You will directly manage one Scrum team at first, but expect to scale your role to overseeing multiple teams and managers as Handshake quickly grows.
Your Role:
We're focusing on innovating Handshake’s core experience for students, while constantly improving our technical foundation and user experience. We’re excited for you to work on:
- Leading, coaching, and inspiring our engineers within the organization.
- Motivating and ensuring the timely, quality-focused delivery of new features and projects
- Ensuring the team’s growth by ensuring the right processes are in place, facilitating efficient communication, and hiring the right talent to fill in the gaps.
- Partnering closely with key stakeholders across Handshake, including Design, Product Management, and Customer Support.
- Leading with empathy as you help us nurture a culture of growth, inclusion, and belonging.
Your Experience:
- Proven track record in leading a team to ship features and products.
- 5+ years of experience managing high-output engineers, preferably managing managers.
- A background in software engineering - the ability to understand the team’s technical challenges and architecture is the key to success.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent people management skills, focusing on support and empowerment.
- Understanding of Agile methodologies.
- Product-focused mindset.
- Passion for helping teams and individuals grow and for building an inclusive culture and diverse team.
As a nice-to-have, experience with Handshake’s technical stack:
- React
- GraphQL
- Typescript
- Ruby on Rails
- Postgres
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
Compensation Range:
$186550 - $205000
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