Senior Backend Engineer, Community & Live Experience

Full Time Senior Backend Engineer, Community & Live Experience at Whatnot (United States)

Senior Backend Engineer, Community & Live Experience

Whatnot United States

Date Posted: 14 Apr, 2023

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary Offered: Not Specified

Job Type: Full Time

Experience Required: 3+ years

Remote Work: Yes

Stock Options: No

Vacancies: 1 available

About Whatnot

Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work.

Our mission: Enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.

The role

Community and Live Experience are at the center of what makes the engaging and safe community Whatnot users love and trust. Not only do we own the core end-to-end livestream experience for our users, we're building social and community-driven features such as direct messaging, giveaways, gifting, and more. We are a full stack product engineering team looking for capable engineers of all kinds.

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 prioritize the highest impact features and ship them quickly. Some sample projects you might work on include: direct messaging, order/seller reviews, giveaways, gifting, badging, and new product features and tooling that help us ensure a meaningful and fun community on Whatnot.

You'll have a lot of individual responsibility and freedoms, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential.

About You

As our next Senior Backend Engineer, you should have 5+ years of backend or generalist software development experience in high growth startups, plus:

• You can write code - experience programming in a professional setting (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript).
• Excellent product instincts. You think about users rather than the best technical solution.
• You’re an excellent problem solver, and can ship features fast.
• You’re open to doing frontend work when required.
• Ability to quickly pick up on new technologies.
• Proven track record of delivering features.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and stock options
• Unlimited Vacation Policy and Company-wide Holidays
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short term disability & Long term Disability
• Work From Home Support
• Up to $500 monthly to spend within Whatnot App
• Care benefits including quarterly allowances on food and wellness

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.