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Software Engineer, Notifications Platform

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Software Engineer, Notifications Platform

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Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Were re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, were inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, were building the future of online marketplacestogether.

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 were just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, were 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 an L5 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? Weve 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

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelors 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.
• Youre an excellent problem solver and operate independently.

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 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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