Software Engineer

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

Software Engineer (Whatnot Inc.; Culver City, CA) (multiple positions): Design and develop software systems and applications to significantly improve the company's top-line metrics. Analyze and design software features based on business metrics collected from buyer and seller experiences. Recommend software upgrades for existing systems. Optimize software for speed and scalability. Develop new and improved features that help new users understand the product, including authentication, activation, email notifications, SEO, and performance marketing. Lead the team in best practices in backend development. Represent the team’s remit to other cross-functional teams to navigate X-team projects and collaboration. Achieve team goals in increasing the number of satisfied buyers and weekly new live sellers (WNLS) on the platform through experimentation and data analysis, while also maintaining seller and GMV retention. Telecommuting permitted from within the U.S.

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here. You have:

• Minimum requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field, plus five (5) years of experience as a Software Engineer or related occupation.

• Must have experience with the following: building scalable systems using Python, Elixir, or JavaScript; delivering features and shipping products; Python A/B testing for experimentation; SQL for data analysis; monitoring tools for logging and dashboarding; and Backend as a Service (BaaS).

Salary: $190,000 – $245,000 per year

🎁 Benefits

• Generous Holiday and Time off Policy

• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision

• Work From Home Support

  • Home office setup allowance

  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits

  • Monthly allowance for wellness

  • Annual allowance towards Childcare

  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses

• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

• Parental Leave

  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

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💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.