Position: Software Engineer
Company: Alcor
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

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.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge – we want you to apply. We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

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**Your Impact:**
We are bringing Handshake’s mission to Europe, and we want you to be part of our growing development team to democratize opportunities for students in the EU! As a member of our EU Engineering team, you will be working on products to help students around the globe find that perfect job to kickstart their early careers.

In this role, you will build new experimental features, implement the core architecture, and craft new ways to help students find and build meaningful careers. You will be involved from design all the way to release; working closely with product, design, and engineering teams to create a fantastic experience for our users.

We’ll count on you to be a vocal leader. Junior engineers will look to you for mentorship and leadership will look for opportunities for you to take on impactful responsibility.

**Your Role:**
You get to architect and build new features for a rapidly growing user base.
You'll be working on a small, multi-functional team with other engineers, a designer, and a product manager.
You’ll have the opportunity to help establish new paradigms and patterns as we scale our European engineering team in Berlin.
We’ll rely on your experience in general engineering architecture discussions as well as influence product definition through product planning meetings.
You’ll help maintain a high level of code craftsmanship through thoughtful code review.
You’ll champion technical excellence by advocating for engineering priorities alongside our product roadmap.
You’ll have the opportunity to make a broad impact on our Engineering team as a whole by leading complex initiatives around various scaling, reliability, and architecture challenges.
You’ll mentor junior engineers and share your experience and knowledge with senior engineers in order to level up the codebase as well as our shared knowledge.

**You’ll work with these technologies:**
Frontend: React, TypeScript, Webpack, Redux
Backend: Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Airflow

**Your Experience:**
You have extensive professional working experience as a web developer
Pre-requisite (must have) to have job experience with Ruby on Rails
You have an eye for good design and empathy for the customer
You appreciate friendly user experiences
You are self-driven and able to prioritize your time
You are a problem solver and a critical thinker who can communicate effectively
You are proficient in English

**About Us:**
Handshake is the #1 place to launch a career with no connections, experience, or luck required. The platform connects up-and-coming talent with 750,000+ employers - from Fortune 500 companies like Google, Nike, and Target to thousands of public school districts, healthcare systems, and nonprofits. In 2022 we announced our $200M Series F funding round. This Series F fundraise and valuation of $3.5B will fuel Handshake’s next phase of growth and propel our mission to help more people start, restart, and jumpstart their careers.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look here at Handshake. With our Hub-Based Remote Working strategy, employees can enjoy the flexibility of remote work, whilst ensuring collaboration and team experiences in a shared space remains possible. Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, New York, and London and teammates working globally.