🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, whether working remotely or from one of our offices. We are building a team that has experience from top tech, retail and payments platforms in the world.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

📈 Opportunity Size

Retail disruption is one of the largest opportunities in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is taking off around the world – a $300B GMV market in China that’s grown 100% YoY. Whatnot is bringing it to the world through a community-first approach, starting in the U.S. where retail is a $5T market opportunity!

💻 Role

Ads & Monetization is a brand new engineering team at Whatnot that is dedicated to building systems & features from the ground up, to help Sellers grow their business. In addition, the team will look at other 0 to 1 monetization products that help Sellers differentiate themselves on the Whatnot platform.

As a software engineer on the Ads & Monetization team, the most important qualities you'll need are making sound product decisions, navigating new domains seamlessly, taking extreme ownership, and shipping high-quality products fast. We always prioritize the highest impact features and ship them quickly. The software team has a lot of individual responsibility and many more freedoms, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to put customers first, make good trade-offs and deliver impact is essential to us.

In this role, you will…

• Build 0 to 1 ads products by working across the full ads stack including bidding & targeting, ranking, serving, campaign management, and seller tooling
• Build highly scalable Ads system that handles all aspects of running an online advertising system and helps sellers differentiate themselves on Whatnot
• Understand our buyer and seller experiences and become an expert in helping them effectively scale their business through ads & monetization products

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next Senior Software Engineer you should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with some industry experience in one of the following areas: ads infra, ads delivery or systems, news/home feed ranking systems infra, recommendation/ranking systems, search engines and/or search infra. You also:

• Are capable of building scalable systems (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript).
• Have product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
• Have built systems that scale at a high growth company before, and can do it again with minimal guidance.
• Can ship products and features lightning-fast without sacrificing quality.
• Are an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do.
• Are comfortable working across the stack (backend and frontend).
• Have the ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly.
• Have a proven track record of delivering features.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options
• Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
• Whatnot covers 99% of employee premium costs, and 75% of dependent care premiums for Medical
• Dental and Vision sponsored 100% by Whatnot for employees and dependents
• Work From Home Support
• Laptop provided by Whatnot and home office setup allowance
• $450 work-from-anywhere quarterly allowance for cell phone, internet, or co-working space
• Care benefits
• $1,350 quarterly allowance on food
• $1,500 quarterly allowance for wellness
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave and gradual return to work
• $20,000 for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts provided by Betterment
• Employer matching contributions of 100% of up to 4% of contributions on base salary

💛 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.