WhatNot is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Whatnot's Ads team as a Software Engineer to build ads products, understand buyer and seller experiences, and help them scale their business through ads products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with some industry experience in one of the following areas: ads serving, ads quality, pricing, discovery, ranking, recommendations, and/or search engines
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Capability of building scalable systems (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript)
• Strong product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
• Experience building systems that scale at a high-growth company before, and can do it again with minimal guidance
• The speed to ship products and features lightning-fast without sacrificing quality
• Excellent problem-solving skills and don’t need to be told exactly what to do
• Comfortability working across the stack (backend and frontend)
• The ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
• A proven track record of delivering features

Responsibilities

• Build ads products by working across the full ads stack including bidding & targeting, ranking/auction, serving, campaign management, and seller tooling
• Build highly scalable ads system that handles all aspects of running an online advertising system and helps sellers differentiate themselves on Whatnot
• Understand our buyer and seller experiences and become an expert in helping them effectively scale their business through ads products

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