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Founded in 2023, Handraise is an AI-native narrative intelligence platform helping the world’s most visible companies understand, manage, and shape how they are perceived across media, markets, and AI systems.

We work with some of the most influential brands in the world, and our investors include Silverton Partners, Floodgate, and Bill Wood Ventures.

Our Founder previously founded TrendKite, the PR analytics company that helped define the modern media measurement category before being acquired by Cision for $225M.

We’re a competitive, tight-knit team based in Austin, TX. We value autonomy, ownership, speed, and grit. We’re looking for people who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about winning, and want to help build a generational company at the center of how brands understand and control their narratives in the age of AI.

About the Role

Handraise is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build and scale the product experience used by communications leaders at some of the world’s largest brands.

You will work across the stack, from customer-facing product experiences to the APIs and services that power them. You’ll help turn complex media, narrative, and AI intelligence into fast, intuitive workflows that make difficult questions easy to answer.

This is not a narrow front-end or back-end role. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, and company leadership to ship meaningful features, improve platform performance, and help define the technical foundation of a rapidly growing enterprise product.

If you can move quickly, make smart technical decisions, and thrive without a perfect playbook, this role is for you.

Your Impact

• Build and ship customer-facing features across the Handraise platform
• Develop scalable APIs, services, and application architecture
• Turn complex data and AI outputs into clear, intuitive product experiences
• Partner closely with Product and Design from concept through launch
• Improve application performance, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Integrate product experiences with Handraise’s data, search, and AI systems
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive resolution across the stack
• Help establish engineering standards, development processes, and technical best practices
• Influence product direction through strong technical judgment and customer understanding
• Mentor other engineers and raise the quality of the team

Your Skills

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience building and operating modern web applications in production
• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks and back-end application development
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, application architecture, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience building data-intensive or enterprise SaaS products
• You can move comfortably between front-end, back-end, and infrastructure concerns
• You care deeply about product quality, usability, performance, and reliability
• You can translate ambiguous product requirements into practical technical solutions
• You are proactive and take ownership from idea through production
• You are comfortable operating in an evolving product with imperfect processes
• You communicate clearly and work well across technical and non-technical teams

Non-Negotiables

• You understand that this is an early-stage startup and you will wear multiple hats
• You do not have a “that is not my job” attitude
• You are comfortable shipping quickly without sacrificing sound engineering judgment
• You take responsibility for the quality and reliability of what you build
• You are willing to investigate and resolve urgent production issues
• You are curious and passionate about the use and impact of AI
• You are not afraid of learning complex media intelligence, data, and LLM concepts
• You care about solving real customer problems, not just writing code

Nice to Haves

• Experience building AI or LLM-powered products
• Experience with search, analytics, media intelligence, or data visualization platforms
• Experience with Python
• Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and infrastructure as code
• Experience supporting enterprise customers and security requirements
• Early-stage startup experience
• Experience serving as a technical lead or mentor

Our Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity
• Competitive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Opportunity to shape the product and engineering foundation from the ground floor
• Direct influence over product strategy and company direction
• High ownership, high autonomy, and meaningful technical challenges
• The chance to build an AI-native platform used by the world’s most influential brands

Sound Great? What Next?

Apply below.

After reviewing resumes, selected candidates will be invited for an initial phone screening, followed by technical and in-person interviews with members of the Handraise engineering and leadership teams.

Handraise is dedicated to equal employment opportunities. We prioritize creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, free of harassment and discrimination. We welcome job candidates from all backgrounds. Everyone will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by federal, state, or local laws.