Senior Software Engineer, Notifications at Handshake
San Francisco, CA
$225,000–$250,000
Jul 13, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role on a Growth team, focused on designing and shipping experiments across the user funnel — including onboarding, activation, retention, and notifications — for a large-scale career platform. The work involves building distributed backend and full-stack systems, collaborating with product managers and data scientists to turn growth hypotheses into testable features, and mentoring other engineers. Suits experienced engineers with a background in experimentation platforms and consumer-facing products.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,650 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,200–2,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role is explicitly onsite 5 days a week at the SF office — not remote.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The 'Desired Capabilities' section is the primary requirements block; Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and React are listed as interchangeable stack examples ('e.g., Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, or equivalent'), so they are captured as one skill with alternatives. The requirement is for strong backend and/or full-stack fundamentals, not specifically any one of these tools.
Experience with experimentation platforms (feature flagging, A/B testing, statistical significance tooling) is listed under Desired Capabilities with 'e.g.' framing — the requirement is for the capability, not a specific named tool.
Mobile growth (iOS/Android) and LLM-powered features appear under 'Extra Credit', treated as preferred.
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