Whatnot · 3 hours ago
Software Engineer, Search & Discovery Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $230K/yr
5+ years expWhatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, redefining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment. The Software Engineer will be responsible for shaping the Discovery Platform, defining technical direction, and designing scalable systems to enhance user discovery experiences.
CollectiblesE-CommerceInformation TechnologyMarketplaceTrading Platform
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
5+ Years Of Experience
Bachelor's Degree In Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a Related Technical Field, Or Equivalent Work Experience
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. DataDog, Grafana
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Kafka, Flink/Spark, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Lucene, SOLR
Experience with concurrent programming patterns across distributed systems (AsyncIO python preferred), and optimizations / profiling / observability associated with them
Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform)
Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles
Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
Benefits
Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
Company
Whatnot
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$974.7MKey Investors
CapitalGY Combinator Continuity FundAndreessen Horowitz
2025-10-28Series F· $225M
2025-01-08Series E· $265M
2022-07-21Series D· $260M
Leadership Team
Jeff Chang
Director of Engineering, Head of Growth
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