Remote Software Engineer, Recommendation Systems

Summary

Join Whatnot, the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, as a Software Engineer to design scalable feed and browse solutions based on critical business goals. You will partner across the company and support initiatives end-to-end with software.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
• Industry experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data
• Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product 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

Responsibilities

• Ship product features to deliver high-quality Discovery experiences for users
• Build and maintain a scalable, stable, low latency feed and browse experience
• Build the services and infrastructure to enable advanced recommendation systems solutions for real-time, dynamic feeds
• 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

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 on both food and 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 leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence