
Job Overview
Location
San Francisco, CA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineer
Date Posted
May 21, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Build and own the product experience layer of AI applications deployed directly into enterprise customer environments, from initial development through continuous iteration based on real usage and feedback
- • Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand their workflows, identify pain points, and define what ‘great’ looks like in their specific context
- • Develop full-stack features encompassing backend APIs, data models, and frontend interfaces using modern technologies including React and TypeScript
- • Collaborate closely with Applied AI and Platform engineers to deliver cohesive, production-grade AI solutions that meet enterprise reliability and security standards
- • Translate customer feedback and usage insights into actionable product improvements that enhance usability, performance, and adoption
- • Uphold and evolve engineering standards, reusable patterns, and architectural best practices as the team scales and deployments multiply
- • Surface critical insights from customer deployments to inform the direction of Handshake’s core AI product roadmap
- • Participate in customer conversations regularly, acting as a bridge between business requirements and technical implementation
- • Prioritize product quality and user experience over pure technical complexity, fixing issues wherever they occur in the stack—frontend, backend, or data layer
- • Work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with real-world stakes, where decisions directly impact enterprise clients and AI model performance
- • Contribute to product decisions alongside cross-functional teams including design, AI research, and customer success
- • Maintain high standards of engineering craft, ensuring applications are not only functional but genuinely delightful and intuitive for end users
- • Integrate AI-powered capabilities into enterprise software ecosystems, ensuring seamless, secure, and scalable deployments
- • Partner with Fortune 500 companies and leading AI research labs to deliver tailored AI solutions that operate at massive scale
- • Iterate rapidly with tight feedback loops driven by live customer data and usage analytics
- • Help shape the future of AI in the enterprise by building tools that enable organizations to deploy and leverage frontier AI models effectively
🎯 Requirements
- • 2-5 years of product engineering experience with full-stack instincts and a genuine care for product quality
- • Proficiency across the stack: comfortable with modern backend frameworks, APIs, and data modeling, as well as React/TypeScript on the frontend
- • An eye for product experience, noticing and fixing issues that affect usability regardless of which layer they originate in
- • Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions that prioritize product outcomes over purely architectural preferences
- • Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with real customers and high-stakes outcomes
- • Strong communication skills to regularly engage in customer conversations and translate between business needs and technical implementation
🏖️ Benefits
- • Equity in a fast-growing company
- • 401(k) match, competitive compensation, and financial coaching
- • Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching
- • Medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, and a $500 wellness stipend
- • $2,000 learning stipend for ongoing professional development
- • Internet, commuting reimbursements, and free lunch/gym access in the San Francisco office
- • Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days
- • Team outings and referral bonuses
Skills & Technologies
About Handshake Technologies, Inc.
Handshake Technologies provides a cloud-based career-services platform that connects university students, recent graduates, and employers. The software enables institutions to manage job postings, career fairs, on-campus interviews, and employer relations while giving students tools to discover internships and entry-level roles and giving employers access to early-career talent across a network of partner colleges and universities.
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