Software Engineer, Data Platforms

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote-first team, we operate out of hubs within the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

Data is a crucial part of Whatnot’s mission to bring people together through commerce. The Data Platforms team creates solutions that improve our core product experience and enable stakeholders across the organization to act with confidence.

As our newest Software Engineer, you will build partnerships across the company and design scalable solutions to pressing business goals. You will build on our data architecture, unlock critical new use cases, and drive end-to-end initiatives leveraging software, data & analytics.

On any given day, you will:

• Make key decisions about how we build data systems at Whatnot – and then make it happen.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of our data platform architecture. You will help craft best practices and roll outs to steer the direction of the team.
• Work with key stakeholders to design data applications for both internal and external audiences and a variety of use cases, including machine learning, experimentation, and real-time analytics.
• Support efforts to optimize the entire data platform, including our real-time logging solutions, analytics databases, data warehouse, metrics store, and more.

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

As our next software engineer, you should have 3+ years of experience, plus:

• Track record in transforming large amounts of complex data into insights through the end-to-end creation of data products.
• Experience implementing real-time and batch data pipelines with tight SLOs and complex transformation requirements
• Proficiency in data architecture and modeling concepts, such as Kimball or Data Vault
• Expertise in data engineering tooling, such as ingesting, testing, transformations, lineage, orchestration, and/or semantic layers.
• Experience managing cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) for processing and serving data products.
• Skill at cultivating strong partnerships and the ability to coach and influence others to up-level the craft of data engineering.

In addition to these role-specific qualifications, you’ll also possess:

• Understanding of the cloud, and experience with at least one of the major cloud providers (e.g. AWS).
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles.
• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform).
• Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

💰Compensation

For US-based applicants: $153,000 - $235,000/year + benefits + stock options

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity in the form of stock options.

🎁  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
  • $1,000 home office setup allowance
  • $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
  • $450 monthly allowance on food
  • $500 monthly allowance for wellness
  • $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare
  • $20,000 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
• 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.

💛  EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.