Your impact

Handshake is looking to hire experienced engineering managers to join our consumer teams. You will lead, grow, and support the engineers building our customer-facing products. You will work on complex technical challenges and enable millions of students and job-seekers to connect with employers through Handshake’s platform.

You will have opportunities to:

• Create a direct impact in the world by helping Handshake to democratize the opportunity for our millions of students

• Work in an impressive innovative environment with many growth and career development opportunities.

• Grow and scale a team, hiring top talent focusing on DEI

• Help to define our culture and processes, not only as a team but also as an organization

Your role

• Build, lead, and successfully develop a team of software engineers from all levels; defining their career development plans, setting specific goals, and motivating them to achieve results as part of their growth

• Successfully manage performance; mentoring and coaching software engineers, supporting both high and underperforming individuals

• Partner closely with key stakeholders across Handshake, including Design, Product Management, and strategic business partners to define clear, ambitious, attainable, metric-oriented goals for their team

• Participate in technical decisions and provide technical coaching, helping tech leads to define and prioritize engineering roadmap

• Lead with empathy as you help us nurture a culture of growth, inclusion, and belonging

Your experience

• Build, lead, and develop successfully a team of software engineers from all levels (from junior to senior) defining their career development plans, setting specific goals, and motivating them to achieve results as part of their growth

• Works cross-functionally to define, drive and track product-level success

• 2+ years experience managing a technical team, 3+ years in technical leadership roles, 7+ years in software engineering

• Demonstrated experience working with or across other engineering teams to ship features or technical improvements

• Experience working as an, and managing, Full-Stack engineer(s), with either web or mobile clients

• Experience working with any or all of: Ruby/Rails, Go, Python, Javascript/React, and Swift/SwiftUI

• Experience working with any or all of: ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgresQL, SideKiq, and GCP Pub/Sub, DataFlow, and Spanner

Compensation range

$205,000 - $225,000

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AsDrupal Developer, you’ll play a key role in developing and deploying robust solutions that enhance our user experience for a diverse audience. You’ll provide support to development teams on solutions and coding, facilitate decision making, and provide technical guidance for committed delivery. You will also conduct research and recommend solutions. The ideal candidate will develop code (e.g., PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery), have expertise in backend technologies, and knowledge of frontend technologies. You'll work with the customer's OCIO IT to deploy code to their production environment and deliver deployment notes to customers.

We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessedwithour people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.

If you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below!

What you’ll do:

• DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN DRUPAL-BASED APPLICATIONS: Build, customize, and maintain the most recent Drupal versioned sites, including module development, theming, and performance tuning to meet project specifications. Stay updated with Drupal core updates, security patches, and best practices.
• FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT: Implement responsive designs using TWIG, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, and other modern front-end frameworks.
• BACK-END DEVELOPMENT: Develop custom modules and integrations, ensure efficient site functionality, and configure Drupal modules to enhance website capabilities and performance.
• SYSTEM INTEGRATION: Integrate Drupal with third-party systems and APIs to extend the functionality of webpages impacted.
• QUALITY ASSURANCE: Collaborate with designers, QA engineers, scrum master, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of user interface elements with backend logic.
• PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION: Optimize website performance and scalability to handle large volumes of traffic, troubleshoot issues, and conduct ongoing maintenance.
• DOCUMENTATION: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all code and system configurations.
• USER SUPPORT: Provide technical solutions and troubleshooting assistance to users and stakeholders.
• COLLABORATION: Participate in code reviews, contribute to technical documentation, and provide guidance to other developers when needed.
• COMMUNICATION: Communicate effectively with project managers, clients, and stakeholders to gather requirements, provide updates, and address technical queries.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• The ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
• 4+ years of experience in full stack Drupal web development. Back-end development expertise, with front-end knowledge, administration, core and custom module development, configuration management/features, and theming.
• Proven experience with Drupal 8, 9, or higher development and ecosystem components (Git, Composer, TWIG, theming, Site Building and Custom Module development).
• Ability to take initiative as an independent sole full stack developer.
• Precise communication and ability to articulate current and future needs.
• Experience working with teams of developers, UX design professionals, content strategists, guiding customers, and being flexible and open to feedback.
• Ability to code and debug in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
• Knowledge in front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, Angular); and back-end technologies (e.g., NodeJS, Python, Elasticsearch, Ruby, scalable server technologies).
• Experience syncing admin changes between multiple environments (configuration importing/exporting); config and modification of contributed modules, standard hooks, and standard self-test regimes.
• Experience working in Agile development teams, shipping code in iterative cycles.
• Experience with Docker containers and working to setup local environments.
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git, SVN) and CI/CD pipelines.

Like we said, we arebig fans of our people. That’s why we offer a generous benefits package, professional growth, and valuable time to recharge. Learn more about our company culture code and benefits. Plus, check out our accolades.

Don’t meet every single requirement? 

Studies have shown that women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification.  At MetroStar we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture, so, if you’re excited about this role, but your previous experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to go ahead and apply.  We pride ourselves on making great matches, and you may be the perfect match for this role or another one we have. Best of luck! – The MetroStar People & Culture Team

What we want you to know:

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

MetroStar Systems is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of MetroStar Systems.

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