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What does a Technical Lead Manager, Frontend Infra do at Handshake?

Handshake is building a diverse team of dynamic engineers who care deeply about delivering high-quality, high-impact products. We're looking for a Technical Lead Manager to lead our Frontend Platform team—a group focused on the systems, tools, and libraries that power all user-facing experiences at Handshake.

In this role, you’ll be both a technical leader and managing a small team, responsible for supporting and growing a team of 3 full-time engineers and 2 contractors. You’ll lead by example, contributing directly to code and architecture while guiding your team through mentorship, career development, and delivery excellence.

You’ll partner closely with designers, product managers, and engineers across the org to ensure our frontend foundation scales with the company’s growth and enables developers to ship high-quality experiences quickly and confidently.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and support a high-performing team of frontend engineers through coaching, feedback, and development opportunities.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to define and execute on a vision for frontend platform architecture, tools, and standards.

• Drive technical strategy and execution, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability.

• Set clear expectations, align the team around goals, and ensure timely delivery of impactful work.

• Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture, code reviews, and high-leverage projects when appropriate.

• Champion engineering quality, accessibility, and developer experience across our frontend stack.

Projects you might tackle:

• Guide the design and rollout of a new shared component library across multiple products.

• Improve frontend build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and local dev workflows to reduce friction for developers.

• Lead adoption of new technologies that improve scalability, performance, and user experience.

• Establish and evangelize frontend best practices, including accessibility, testing, and documentation.

About you:

• You have 2+ years of engineering management experience, ideally on frontend or platform teams.

• You’ve led teams building and maintaining complex web applications and design systems.

• You stay technical and are comfortable digging into code, especially in React and TypeScript.

• You’re invested in your team’s growth and take pride in helping others succeed.

• You value empathy, communication, and inclusive collaboration across disciplines.

• You thrive in fast-moving environments and are excited by the opportunity to shape foundational systems.

Technologies you'll work with:

• React, Styled Components, TypeScript, Storybook

• Redux, GraphQL

• Webpack, ESBuild, Rollup

• CI/CD Pipelines in GitHub and Netlify

About us

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake to build their future workforce—from Fortune 500 to federal agencies, school districts to startups, healthcare systems to small businesses. Handshake is built for where you’re going, not where you’ve been.

When it comes to our workforce strategy, we’ve thought deeply about how work-life should look at Handshake. With our hybrid-work model, employees benefit from collaboration and shared team experiences three days per week in our vibrant offices, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work two days per week (unless noted in the specific job posting). Handshake is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Berlin.

What we offer

• At Handshake, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

• Benefits below apply to US employees in full-time positions.

• 💰 Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.

• 🍼 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.

• 💝 Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also provide resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.

• 📚 Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.

• 💰 Financial coaching through Origin to help you through your financial journey.

• 🛜 Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.

• 🚃 Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).

• 🥗 Free lunch provided 3x a week across all offices.

• 🤝 Referral bonus to reward you when you bring great talent to Handshake.

• 🏦 401k Match: Handshake offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.

• 🏝 All full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 13 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of Collective Time Off.

• 💻 Handshake offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.

• 🍼 Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with Maven Clinic to provide a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses related to fertility and family forming!

• 💰 Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchases such as fitness classes, gym memberships, work-from-home setup, and more.

Looking for more? Explore our mission, values and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

Handshake is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.