Software Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

Handshake•San Francisco, CA

1d•$157,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on the Handshake AI Enterprise team, you'll help own the product experience layer of AI applications we deploy directly into enterprise customer environments. You'll work closely with customers to understand their workflows, contribute to product decisions, and build end-to-end solutions that are genuinely delightful to use, not just functional. We believe engineering craft is a meaningful part of what makes AI applications succeed in enterprise environments, and you'll be expected to bring that sensibility to everything you ship.

Requirements

2-5 years of product engineering experience with fullstack instincts and a genuine care for product quality
Proficiency across the stack: comfortable with modern backend frameworks, APIs, and data modeling, as well as React/TypeScript on the frontend
An eye for product experience, you notice when things feel off and you fix them, regardless of which layer the problem lives in
Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions that serve the product, not just the architecture
Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with real customers and real stakes
Strong communication skills, you'll be in customer conversations regularly and need to translate between business needs and technical decisions

Nice To Haves

Experience building or integrating AI-powered features in production, customer-facing products
Background working in or alongside enterprise deployment environments
History of close collaboration with designers, or a background in design yourself
Experience at a company with a forward-deployed or embedded engineering model

Responsibilities

Contribute to the product experience of AI applications deployed into enterprise customer environments, from initial build through iteration
Participate in customer conversations to understand workflows, pain points, and what "great" looks like in their context
Build high-quality, full-stack features, from data models and APIs to the interfaces people actually use
Collaborate closely with Applied AI and Platform engineers on your deployment team to ship cohesive, production-grade solutions
Iterate based on real usage and customer feedback, with tight feedback loops
Contribute to product engineering standards and reusable patterns as the team scales
Surface insights from customer deployments that inform Handshake's core product direction