Engineering Manager

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.

Your Impact

Handshake is hiring an experienced Engineering Manager for our Analytics & Integrations team to shape the future of career discovery for Generation Z. You’ll lead a team building powerful embedded analytics, data-rich APIs, and seamless integrations connecting universities, students and employers across our emerging career social network. Combining your technical depth with inspiring leadership, you’ll ensure millions of students across the globe find meaningful jobs and launch careers with confidence.

Your Role

• Build, lead, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, developing their technical and leadership skills; clearly define growth paths and motivate towards impactful outcomes
• Champion a data-driven product culture, expanding the capabilities of our embedded analytics and employer integrations products—critical data sources fueling our applied AI and ML initiatives that shape student experiences
• Partner closely with key stakeholders across Handshake including Product Management, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and go-to-market teams, defining clear, ambitious, and measurable goals to enhance data accessibility, quality, and integration reliability at scale
• Guide technical decisions and provide technical coaching, helping tech leads to define and prioritize our product and engineering roadmap
• Lead with empathy as you help us nurture a culture of growth, inclusion, and belonging

Your Experience

• 2+ years of experience managing a technical team in a people leadership role
• 5+ years of experience in Backend Engineering with one or more programming languages (Ruby, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.)
• Demonstrable experience operating distributed services in production environments
• Know-how and success working cross-functionally to drive impactful, product-level outcomes

If you’re passionate about leading teams, building impactful products, and helping scale a global platform that empowers millions of students and their careers, we’d love to hear from you.

What we offer

At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

Benefits below apply to employees in full-time (not Contract) positions.

• 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 LGBTQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.
• Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000/£1,500/€1,850 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.
• Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.
• Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.
• Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).
• Free lunch provided 3x a week across all offices.
• Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.