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): Work with the team to scope and deliver new software features to support seller inventory processes. Maintain existing product surfaces by shipping improvements and scaling systems to meet growth demands. Build data marts for Inventory features to facilitate data-driven decision-making across the company. Triage product or system issues and seeing them through to resolution. Participate in code reviews and technical discussions. Be a member of an on-call rotation to ensure adequate coverage to support our users. Build new features for users in Whatnot Inc.’s live streams. Implement growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows. Build systems at scale that help deliver a high trust marketplace experience. Design, implement, and operate Whatnot Inc.’s most critical and scalable services. Evaluating the technical tradeoffs of every decision. Supporting features at every phase, from design through implementation and launch. Introduce new techniques, tools, and architecture that improve the quality, performance, latency, throughput, and efficiency of models. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, network, or service operations and quality. 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, Software Engineering, or related field, one (1) year of experience as a Software Engineer or related occupation.

• Must have experience with the following: back-end programming language: Python or Elixir; relational database: MySQL or PostgreSQL; contributing to user-facing clients (React web page, Android, or iOS app); building product and scalable systems; and Kafka, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL Database.

Salary: $145,000 - $180,000 per year

APPLY NOW or send resume to: emilypullen@whatnot.com

💛 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.