Handshake
Associate iOS Engineer
About this role
Join Handshake's four-person iOS team as the first Engineer I, owning features end-to-end for an app used by nearly one million students weekly. You'll build in Swift/SwiftUI with mentorship from four senior engineers, shipping on a weekly cadence to help students discover jobs and connect with employers.
What you'll do
- Own iOS features from concept through App Store launch, including product discussions, development, testing, and iteration
- Build view models, integrate GraphQL/REST services, and ship UI components using the internal design system
- Write unit tests and contribute to acceptance test coverage for shipped features
- Work on high-visibility surfaces like job discovery, career events, and student profiles during peak seasons
- Participate in weekly release train with feature flags and staged rollouts
- Help develop AI-powered experiences and use AI tools in daily engineering workflow
What they're looking for
- Swift and SwiftUI (with UIKit experience)
- MVVM and Coordinator architectural patterns
- GraphQL and REST API integration
- Asynchronous programming and networking
- Unit testing and XCTest
- Git and code review practices
- iOS fundamentals (lifecycle, memory, performance)
- AI-assisted development tools
Benefits
- Mentorship from four senior engineers with named onboarding mentor
- Clear growth path to Engineer II with intentional development
- Weekly shipping cadence with modern tooling and CI/CD
- Work on consumer app at scale (1M+ weekly users)
- Impact on career outcomes for millions of students globally
- Access to AI tools and frontier AI lab partnerships
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Handshake
Handshake is a platform that connects students and job seekers with employers through job discovery and matching. The company is hiring iOS engineers, machine learning engineers, AI software engineers, and AI domain experts to build personalization systems, mobile experiences, and production AI solutions for both consumer and enterprise customers.
- Website
- handshake.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through an iOS app you've shipped to real users—why did you structure it that way, and what would you change?
- Tell us about a time you took initiative on a project beyond what was asked of you. How did you handle feedback?