Whatnot is the largest livestream 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare 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
We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us post grad in 2026. The most important skills you’ll need to have are making sound product decisions and shipping high-quality products fast. We look for engineers with great product instincts who can own whole projects from start to finish.
The engineering team operates with a high level of autonomy so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential to us. Some job duties include:
Building new features for users in our live-streams
Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high trust marketplace experience
Writing product or system development code
Designing, implementing, and operating our most critical and scalable services
Carefully evaluating the technical tradeoffs of every decision
Supporting features at every phase, from design through implementation and launch
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, network, or service operations and quality.
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco hubs.
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.
As our next Engineer you should have some industry software engineering experience, plus:
Graduating with a CS or Software Engineering degree in Dec 2025 or by Summer 2026
Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
Capable of building scalable systems
Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
Open to relocation to SF, LA, or NYC
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
Care benefits
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
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.
$140K – $150K • Offers Equity
The salary or hourly rate range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary or hourly rate will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary or hourly rate, not benefits or equity.
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