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🚀 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. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone. And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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 The Logistics team at Whatnot focuses on all things shipping for our sellers and buyers globally, including global carrier integrations, providing tools to sellers to ship quickly and efficiently, opening up new lines of business, showing accurate tracking to buyers, and more. Logistics is deeply connected with the foundations of our business and unlock tremendous growth while creating exciting new ways for our users to have the highest quality shipping experience with Whatnot. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build systems and features to help Whatnot continue to grow at a breakneck pace. We're looking to make a number of improvements to the Logistics-domain at Whatnot, including implementing a robust carrier-first architecture and engineering for massive scale and global reach. Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or New York hubs. 👋 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 Backend Engineer you should have 5+ years of software engineering experience , plus: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript—knowledge of these in particular not required) Excellent product instincts—you first think about users rather than the best technical solution You can mentor others, and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams Project owner—you’ve strong ownership instincts and can own projects from inception to production and beyond You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do You’re open to doing frontend work when necessary  Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly Proven track record of delivering features  Experience with payment systems, infrastructure, experiences and international commerce (nice-to-have) Start-up experience at a high-growth company (nice-to-have) 🎁 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 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 ma

🚀 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 We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members of our Machine Learning and Data Platform team. You will partner across the company and use data to design scalable solutions based on a deep understanding of critical business goals. The ideal candidate will support initiatives end to end with software, data & machine learning engineering. What you'll do: Partner closely across the machine learning, platform, and product engineering teams to train models to solve product problems and productionize data science and machine learning artifacts. Contribute scalable solutions across various serving stacks at the machine learning service and application layers. Build and help set direction for ML infrastructure, such as feature construction patterns, data and model monitoring, online & offline scoring systems, and model usage patterns. Develop high quality communication devices such as dashboards, notebooks, documents, and presentations to convey insights across a broad audience. Define and advance our technical approach to scalable machine learning. 👋 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 Software Engineer, Machine Learning you should have 5+ years of experience, plus: Proven history of knowledge in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering or related technical field. Industry experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data. Extensive experience with Python for data science and machine learning software development e.g. Flask, FastAPI, Docker. Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams. Experience with operational databases such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis. Proficiency and experience in applied statistical and machine learning fields e.g. Recommendations, Search, Fraud & Anomaly Detection, Experimentation and Causal Analysis Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Kafka, Flink/Spark. Professionalism around collaborating in a remote working environment and well tested, reproducible work. Exceptional documentation and communication skills. 💰Compensation For US-based applicants: $153,000 - $235,000/year + benefits + stock options 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 pri

🚀 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. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone. And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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 The Seller Scaling team at Whatnot is responsible for building tools and experiences that empower our top GMV-generating sellers to grow and scale their businesses. In this role, you’ll help shape strategy, drive execution, and partner closely with product and design to solve complex, high-leverage problems. We're looking for a leader with strong product instincts, who can clearly articulate what needs to be built — and isn’t afraid to step into a PM mindset when needed. This will be a highly technical role, requiring strong engineering judgment to guide the team and ensure they have the skills and direction needed to shape and deliver the right solutions. Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hubs. 👋 You In addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates should also: Have experience leading a team of engineers to deliver significant business impact while guiding them through both their career development and executing in a high-growth environment. Have low ego, an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources. Know how to effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams. Operate as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces across web and mobile. Have great taste in building user experiences and the systems behind them, understand how form follows function, and effectively direct teams to build in this manner. Be comfortable with technical debt and how to leverage it. Understand how to instrument product metrics, recognizing the value and limits of data. Effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity. Have substantial hands-on experience of doing the job you’ll be managing. 🎁 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 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. 💛 EOE Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. W

🚀 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 workf

🚀 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 Maintain an efficient CI/CD pipeline to help developers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment. Build local environment tooling to enable the engineering team to build and test product features swiftly and safely. Work with the engineering team to get services deployed across different environments. Implement and optimize developer workflow to reduce friction and increase productivity. Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements. Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, or Seattle, WA hubs. 👋 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 Developer Productivity Engineer, you should have 5+ years of developer productivity or similar experience, helping build scalable systems that can handle millions of users, plus: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience. Excellent developer experience instincts. You first think about engineer experience rather than the best technical solution. Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction. Prior experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Terraform. Expert knowledge of various CI/CD workflows. Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship lightning-fast. We primarily use Python and Elixir, but previous knowledge of each is not required. Excellent communication and writing skills. 💰Compensation $185,000 - $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 $1,000 home office setup allowance $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet Care benefits $450 monthly allowance on food $500 monthly allowance for wellness $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare $20,000 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 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 ski

🚀 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. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone. And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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 We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members in shaping the Discovery Platform. You will play a critical role in defining the technical direction and designing a world-class scalable Discovery system that is scalable enough to keep pace with our business growth to power feed, browse, search and taxonomy systems while catering to the unique challenges of operating a marketplace for live shopping! Working in a highly cross functional role, you’ll make key decisions about how we integrate retrieval, ranking through machine learning, real-time and stream processing, content understanding, materialization into a highly personalized discovery experience that unlocks product iterations while providing strong reliability. An ideal candidate will have experience building discovery backend and data systems at scale, with a knack for working closely with product engineers to solve immediate problems for our users while making right tradeoffs towards building a platform. We’ll often prototype new ideas quickly, and then need to build them for extreme scale while coordinating closely with other teams - the ideal person for this role is an expert at both of these approaches. Learn more about the Discovery systems at Whatnot from our blog posts on Whatamix, LLMs for Search. What you'll do: Build the services and infrastructure to enable advanced recommendation systems solutions for real-time, dynamic feeds Build a scalable, stable, low latency discovery experience 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 our technical approach to scalable recommendation systems. US Based: Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York hubs. 👋 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. As our next Software Engineer you should have 5+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience, and ideally deep experience with several of the following: Industry experience in building and scaling a platform to handle high volume / throughput applications Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams. You can mentor others and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams. Experience in machine learning fields (e.g. Recommendations, Content Understanding and Search). Expert at designing and building scalable and maintainable backend systems. Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. Dat

🚀 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. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone. And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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  Seller Merchandising, nested within our Seller Engineering org, exists to build the world’s most connected marketplace for enthusiasts. The team focuses on essential components that enhance Whatnot’s customer experience. They are committed to crafting a fun and engaging journey for buyers and sellers by providing the necessary tools for frictionless shopping on Whatnot—features like Checkout, Listing Page, Seller Shop, Buy It Now, and Flash Sales. Looking ahead, the team is poised to innovate and expand, ensuring an ever-evolving and dynamic marketplace for all users. In this frontend-leaning (70/30) fullstack role, you will... Own full page web migrations to Next.js Improve reliability on core marketplace surfaces Build live experiences to make purchasing more entertaining on Whatnot Scale our checkout experience Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hub. 👋 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. As our next Fullstack Engineer on Seller Merchandising, you should have 5+ years of generalist software development experience in high growth startups, plus: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript—knowledge of these in particular not required) Web development experience with React, using GraphQL for API development, and modern frontend applications (exposure to Next.js framework is not required but preferred) Excellent product instincts—you first think about users rather than the best technical solution You can mentor others, and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams Project owner—you’ve strong ownership instincts and can own projects from inception to production and beyond You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly Proven track record of delivering features 🎁 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 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