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Software Engineer, Notifications

Whatnot
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

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

  • Growth engineers at Whatnot have big ownership and velocity in order to significantly impact the company top-line metrics. To achieve our goals, we are passionate about understanding our buyer and seller experiences and becoming experts in our business metrics.
  • This is a critical role on the notifications team, where you will architect complex systems to send the right message to the right user at the right time, at scale

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.

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 on our Growth team, you should have 5 years of full-time software engineering experience in high growth startups, plus :

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience building scalable systems (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript).
  • Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
  • Experience working on notifications or messaging systems is a plus
  • Compensation

    215,000 / year to $285,000 / 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.
  • 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.

    Salary : $215,000 - $285,000

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