Job Details

Overview

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Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, 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, building the future of online marketplaces with hubs in the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Poland.

Compensation

Base pay range: $140,000 / yr – $150,000 / yr.

Role

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us as a post‑grad in 2026. The most important skills 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.

Job Duties

• 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, San Francisco, or Seattle hubs.

Qualifications

• 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, thinking about users before the best technical solution
• Known for shipping products and features lightning‑fast
• Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
• Open to relocation to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle

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; 401(k) 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

Employment Details

Seniority level: Internship. Employment type: Full‑time. Job function: Engineering and Information Technology. Industries: Technology, Information and Internet.