Software Engineer, Notifications Platform
🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
Whatnot is the largest live 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, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, we’re building the future of online marketplaces –together.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to 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
At Whatnot, the Notifications Platform team is responsible for delivering all the notifications sent to Whatnot users. Our platform enables teams at Whatnot to send relevant messages to both buyers and sellers while driving an overall communications experience focused on quality, utility and business impact. We are a product platform team within the discovery organization. As the software engineer, you will
Be responsible for architecting, building and scaling core platform components of notifications delivery, audience targeting as well as improve developer experience and platform observability
Effectively collaborate with PM and other ICs on the team to lead platform projects
Mentor/uplevel other junior engineers on the team
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, or New York hubs.
👋 You
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego and a growth mindset, while leaning into action, details, and impact goes a long way here.
As our next platform engineer you have:
3-5 years of software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Experience building platforms and large scale systems.
You are known for the high quality of your engineering designs.
You’re an excellent problem solver and operate independently.
🎁 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
All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
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.
💛 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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