Software Engineer, Discovery (Feed)
WhatnotNew York, New York, United States ā¢ Los Angeles, California, United States ā¢ Seattle, Washington, United States ā¢ San Francisco, California, United States
Posted December 12, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling anyone to turn their passion into a business and bringing people together through commerce.
Job Description
Join Whatnot, the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, as a Software Engineer on the Discovery Feed & Personalization team. You will partner across the company to lead exploration efforts and deliver high-quality Discovery experiences for users.
Requirements
- Bachelorās degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data.
- Experience in discovery-related fields (e.g. Recommendations, Content Understanding, Search, etc.)
- Expert at designing and building scalable and maintainable backend systems.
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Kafka, Flink/Spark.
Benefits
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays
- 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