Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
About the role
Frontend Platform is a small, high-leverage team with a broad mandate. We own Handshake's design system and component libraries, frontend accessibility, frontend infrastructure in CI/CD, developer tooling, and cross-cutting UI concerns.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of professional frontend software development experience, with experience operating at a high level of scope and ownership
- Expertise in TypseScript, React, and the modern frontend ecosystem, including strong knowledge of browser fundamentals, frontend architecture, testing, and performance tradeoffs
- Experience building or maintaining reusable frontend libraries, design systems, component platforms, or other shared capabilities used by multiple teams or applications
- Experience working on both product teams and platform, infrastructure, or developer-experience teams—or a demonstrated understanding of the different problem-solving approaches each requires
- A track record of turning ambiguous, recurring problems into simple, maintainable, and well-adopted solutions
- Experience designing APIs and abstractions that are easy for other engineers to understand, use, extend, and operate over time
More about this role
At Handshake, our platform connects job seekers with life-changing career opportunities. Behind that mission is a frontend ecosystem that helps teams build clear, consistent, accessible, and high-quality experiences for students, employers, and education partners.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Frontend Platform Team, you'll help build and evolve that foundation. You'll work on the systems, libraries, and workflows that make it easier for product engineers to deliver great frontend experiences—faster, safely, and with less duplicated effort.
Frontend Platform is a small, high-leverage team with a broad mandate. We own Handshake's design system and component libraries, frontend accessibility, frontend infrastructure in CI/CD, developer tooling, and cross-cutting UI concerns.
You'll treat these capabilities as products for frontend engineers, designers, and product teams. You'll help turn recurring problems into reusable solutions, establish thoughtful standards and paved paths, and create a frontend platform that scales with Handshake's products and engineering organization.
This role is a strong fit for an expert generalist: someone with deep expertise in a few areas and the...
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