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About the Role
We’re growing our engineering leadership team at Whatnot and hiring Engineering Managers across several high-priority areas of the business. Following our recent Series G funding and $20B valuation, we’re entering an exciting new chapter of growth and looking for leaders who thrive on building high-performing teams, solving complex technical challenges, and shaping the future of live commerce. As an EM at Whatnot, you’ll operate at the intersection of technical complexity, scale, and meaningful product impact. From powering hundreds of millions of orders to building engaging buyer and seller experiences and the foundational infrastructure behind our live marketplace, our teams tackle some of the most exciting challenges in commerce. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional leaders, drive technical excellence, and have real ownership over architecture, execution, and growing exceptional engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Leading engineering teams, supporting career development while delivering results in a high-growth environment.
- Recruiting, mentoring, retaining, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
- Providing hands-on technical leadership experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and complex web and mobile applications.
- Defining and leveraging product metrics, with a strong understanding of both the value and limitations of data.
- Effectively managing stakeholders, navigating competing priorities, and operating successfully in ambiguous environments.
- Using Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job.
Requirements
- Low ego, a builder mindset, and sound judgment when making difficult trade-offs with limited resources.
- Strong product and design instincts, with an understanding of how user experience and technical architecture work together to deliver great products.
- Comfortable making pragmatic decisions around technical debt and balancing short-term execution with long-term maintainability.
- Significant hands-on engineering experience in the domain you’ll be leading, enabling credibility with technical teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Technical leadership
- Team building
- Career development
- High-growth environments
- Recruiting
- Mentoring
- Retention
- Development
- Large-scale distributed systems
- Complex web applications
- Mobile applications
- Product metrics
- Stakeholder management
- Problem-solving
- Product design
- User experience
- Technical architecture
- Technical debt management
- Data analysis
Location
- Remote
- New York
- San Francisco
- Seattle
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
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 for 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
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
About the Company
- Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love.
- We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy.
- The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.
- As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia.
- We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
- We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.
- Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.