Senior Frontend Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

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Handshake is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer for its Handshake AI Enterprise unit. The role involves architecting the frontend foundation including component systems, design language, and engineering practices, while collaborating with AI and platform engineers to build scalable, production-grade UI for enterprise customers.

Highlights

Architect the frontend foundation including component systems, design tokens, and engineering conventions.
Make foundational technology decisions on frameworks, state management, rendering strategies, and performance budgets.
Build shared libraries and abstractions to enable efficient development by other engineers.
Establish scalable code standards, review practices, and documentation.
Collaborate with Applied AI and Platform teams to define API contracts and integration patterns.
Ship production-grade UI for enterprise deployments and evolve the architecture as the product scales.
Required skills: 5-6+ years in frontend engineering, strong ReactJS and TypeScript expertise, experience with shared component libraries/design systems, and frontend architecture knowledge.
Extra: Experience in AI-powered or data-intensive frontend applications, technical documentation, performance optimization, and enterprise deployment familiarity.
Compensation includes equity, competitive salary, 401(k) match, and financial coaching.
Benefits include paid parental leave, medical/dental/vision plans, wellness stipends, learning stipends, flexible PTO, and team outings.

Senior Frontend Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Full Description

About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. Weâve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the worldâs top educational institutions
Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About the Role

Handshake AI Enterprise is a new business unit building AI-powered applications for the world's largest companies. We deploy small, expert teams directly into enterprise environments â deeply learning each customer's business, defining where AI can drive real impact, and building and iterating on agents that automate their most critical workflows. We're not a consulting firm and we're not selling software. We're building and deploying AI that measurably changes how enterprises operate.

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who wants to architect the foundation â not just build on top of it.

As our first senior frontend hire, you'll define how we build UI across the entire team. That means establishing the component system, design language, and engineering patterns that every engineer who comes after you will rely on. You'll set the technical bar, make the foundational decisions, and build in a way that scales â so others can move fast without sacrificing quality.

This is a rare opportunity to own the frontend architecture of a new product from zero, at a company with the data, lab relationships, and momentum to win.

Location: San Francisco, CA | 5 days/week in-office

Architect the frontend foundation for Handshake AI Enterprise â component system, design tokens, patterns, and engineering conventions that the whole team builds on
Make foundational technology decisions: framework choices, state management, rendering strategy, performance budgets
Build shared libraries and abstractions that let other engineers move fast without reinventing the wheel or sacrificing quality
Establish code standards, review practices, and documentation that scale as the team grows
Collaborate closely with Applied AI and Platform engineers to define clean API contracts and integration patterns
Ship production-grade UI for enterprise customer deployments alongside building the foundation
Evolve the architecture over time as the team, product, and customer base scales

Desired Capabilities

5â6+ years of frontend engineering experience with a strong architectural track record
Deep expertise in ReactJS and TypeScript â you understand the tradeoffs, not just the syntax
Proven experience building and maintaining shared component libraries or design systems used by other engineers
Strong opinions on frontend architecture â state management, rendering patterns, performance, accessibility â and the ability to defend and evolve them
Experience making technology decisions that others depend on, with an eye toward long-term maintainability
Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the right answer isn't always obvious
Strong communication skills â you'll need to align engineers, product, and design on how things get built

Extra Credit

Experience building frontend architecture for AI-powered or data-intensive applications
Background at a company known for high craft â you've seen what a great design system looks like from the inside
History of writing technical documentation or guides that helped other engineers ramp quickly
Experience with performance optimization, accessibility standards, or cross-platform rendering at scale
Familiarity with enterprise deployment environments or security constraints

Perks

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supportedâand thrive at work and in life.

The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

ð¯ Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

ð° Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

ð¼ Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching

ð Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend

ð Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development

ð» Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

ð Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days

ð¤ Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

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