🚀 Whatnot
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our
values
, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today.
We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions from fashion, beauty, electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants. Whatnot has something for everyone.
And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the
fastest growing marketplaces
and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.
💻 Role
You’re going to be our next web engineer building the fundamental Seller, Order and Support experiences for all buyers and sellers.
You’ll build products end-to-end which power core buyer and seller experiences at Whatnot.
You’ll implement more helpful customer order and shipment experiences, LLM-based chat functionalities, classification and automation flows, and tools to enhance Whatnot's usability for our vast customer base.
Have direct influence over core business metrics with the goal of increasing retention, CSAT and DSAT scores as our product continues to scale.
Build from scratch reliable core data flows ensuring world-class user experience across the entire product landscape.
👋 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 web engineer on the Customer Experience team, you should have 6+ years of frontend software development experience in high-growth startups, plus:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
You have keen product and customer sense. You’ll impact customers globally and be crucial in Whatnot earning their trust. You first think about users, rather than the best technical solution.
Rapidly write and ship high-quality code, and are excited to pick up new technologies and languages in areas of the stack you’re unfamiliar with.
We primarily use Python, Elixir, React, JavaScript, Swift and Kotlin, although these aren’t prerequisites.
An interest or experience in Machine Learning solution development.
💰Compensation
$185,000/year to $245,000/year + benefits + equity
The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.
🎁 Benefits
Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
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 on both food and 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
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.
💛 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.