# Software Engineer

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. We’ve 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 world’s 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 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria. This role is based out of our Sofia office and is not eligible for full-time remote work. We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help build

- **Id**: 4076268
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/handshake-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Sofia, Bulgaria
- **Countries**: BG
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T12:23:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T15:25:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5637
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Job Boards & Aggregators, AI Training Data & Annotation, Professional Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 5000
- **Name**: Handshake
- **Domain**: joinhandshake.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/handshake>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.4
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 56000
- **Max**: 83000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 92565

## Technologies

- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scale AI** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T15:25:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T18:46:46Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 92565
- **Is top pay**: no

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