🚀 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  Ads is a growing engineering team at Whatnot that is dedicated to building systems & features to help Sellers grow their business. As a software engineer on the Ads 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 highly scalable Ads system that handles all aspects of running an online advertising system and helps sellers differentiate themselves on Whatnot Focus on the web-based aspects of ad flows and the ad dashboard, with occasional backend work Maintain web apps, develop new features and potentially work around infrastructure. Understand our buyer and seller experiences and become an expert in helping them effectively scale their business through ads & monetization products

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Kraków, Poland 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 New Grad Engineer on the Ads team, you should have a graduation date between December 2024 and June 2025 plus:

Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript - knowledge of these in particular not required) Previous internship experience Excellent product instincts. Thinks about users first and cares about building intuitive, high-impact products Can take a project from idea to launch, shipping features quickly while maintaining quality Enjoy taking ownership of projects and seeing them through from start to finish Learn new technologies quickly and is excited to grow in a fast-paced environment An excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do (Nice to have) Has exposure to ads systems, infrastructure, or international commerce

💛 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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🚀 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. 📈 Opportunity Size The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is perhaps the largest opportunity in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity! 💻 Role

The Seller Growth Engineering team is responsible for growing sellers on Whatnot — enabling them to turn their hobbies into businesses. As a senior software engineer on the Seller Growth team, you’ll focus on defining different seller cuts and measuring the seller lifecycle, making sellers successful throughout their lifecycle, seller onboarding, seller marketing and growth capabilities and tooling, and resurrecting churned sellers.

👋 About 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, but here are a few criteria we're looking for in this role: As our next Senior Software Engineer you should have 5+ years of full-time, generalist software engineering experience in high growth startups, plus:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience Experience building scalable systems (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript). Ability to work across the stack (backend and frontend). Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution. Proven track record of delivering features. You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast. Ability to take ownership of an ambiguous area and define and then drive impact Ability to flexibly work across multiple workstreams, thriving in a fast-paced environment Knowledge of Data and Growth Systems like Notifications Scalability and Data pipeline experience with SQL, dbt, etc.

💰Compensation For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $185,000 - $225,000/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

Competitive base salary and stock options benchmarked to 90th percentile Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays Amazing Health Insurance options including a no premium plan, Dental and Vision Plans with less $1 monthly employee contribution and no cost Life Insurance 13 Week Parental Leave $200 to spend within Whatnot App $3500 expense to buy your computer and at home work station $100 weekly expense for Lunch $75 monthly expense for Internet $75 monthly expense for Cell Phone plan

💛  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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