Software Engineer, 2027 New Grad

About the Role

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe. We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us post grad in 2027. The most important skills you’ll need to have are making sound product decisions and shipping high-quality products fast. We look for engineers with great product instincts who can own whole projects from start to finish.

Key Responsibilities

• Building new features for users in our live-streams
• Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
• Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high trust marketplace experience
• Writing product or system development code
• Designing, implementing, and operating our most critical and scalable services
• Carefully evaluating the technical tradeoffs of every decision
• Supporting features at every phase, from design through implementation and launch
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, network, or service operations and quality.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Graduated with a CS or Software Engineering degree by Summer 2027
• Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
• Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
• Capable of building scalable systems
• Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
• Known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
• Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
• Open to relocation to Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle
• Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of one of our following hubs: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle.
• Compensation Range: $155K - $160K