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 its trading cards fashion electronics or live plants our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. Were building live commerce at a scale thats never been done in the West and theres no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team were 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.

Were 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): Design and build scalable and maintainable backend systems. Partner across the company to design scalable feed and browse solutions based on a deep understanding of critical business goals. Support technological initiatives end to end with software development. Prototype new software ideas and build them for extreme scale while coordinating closely with other teams. Develop product features to deliver high-quality Discovery experiences for users. Build and maintain a scalable stable low latency feed and browse experience. Build the software services and infrastructure to enable advanced recommendation systems solutions for real-time dynamic feeds. Partner closely across the machine learning platform and product engineering teams to utilize models to solve discovery problems. Contribute scalable solutions across various serving stacks at the feed search machine learning service and Discovery application layers. Define and advance the companys technical approach to scalable recommendation systems. Utilize cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker Lambda Kinesis S3 EC2 EKS/ECS Kafka and Flink/Spark. Apply practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data. Telecommuting permitted from within the U.S.

You

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

• Minimum requirements: Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Software Engineering Statistics Mathematics or related field plus five (5) years of experience as a Software Engineer or related occupation.

• Must have experience with the following: leading initiatives across multiple product areas and communicating findings with leadership and product teams; machine learning fields: Recommendations Content Understanding and Model Inferencing; designing and building scalable and maintainable backend systems; visualization tools for monitoring and logging: DataDog or Grafana; cloud computing platforms and managed services: S3 EC2 ECS AWS Sagemaker Lambda Kafka and Flink/Spark.

Salary: $245000 $335000 per year

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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.

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