(Full Time) Senior Backend Engineer, Payments at Whatnot (United States) | BEAMSTART Jobs
Senior Backend Engineer, Payments
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
Whatnot
Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. Our mission is to enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Role
Payments at Whatnot makes the money flow and orders happen. The team’s scope is large, encompassing pay, fraud & shipping. Engineers own these entire flows from experience, to vendor integrations, to in-house infrastructure. Last year we moved >$150m through these pipelines and shipped millions of products to users, aiming to 10x those numbers this year.
To achieve these goals, we’re looking to make substantial improvements to our systems including critical areas like payment scale & reliability, increased payment options, fraud mitigation, advanced shipping options, and improved delivery times.
You
As our next Senior Backend Engineer, Payments 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 - knowledge of these in particular not required).
- Excellent product instincts. You first 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 pick up on new technologies very quickly.
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
- Care benefits
- Professional Development
- 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts provided by Betterment
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.
About Whatnot
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S. Company Size: 251 - 500 People, Year Founded: 2019, Country: United States, Company Status: Actively Hiring.
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