Software Engineer, Recommendation Systems

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WhatNot

πŸ’΅ $185k-$245k
πŸ“Remote - United States

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
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