# Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://www.joinhandshake.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $208K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/2d25a9c3-0482-430e-8be1-3fbb19e8bf43
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-senior-software-engineer-frontend-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering