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Whatnot
Whatnot

Software Engineer, Video

Location

Remote restrictions apply
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Salary Estimate

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Seniority

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Tech stacks

Software Development
Functional progamming
Innovation
+22

Visa

U.S. visa required

Permanent role
3 days ago
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šŸš€ Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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.

šŸ’» Role

At Whatnot, video and live streaming are the foundation of our business. As we embark on an exciting phase of expansion, we're seeking to enrich our platform with innovative video solutions and enhanced tools designed to empower both our buyers and sellers. This included introducing advanced seller tools, like interactive overlays, to boost the streaming experience.

We are seeking specialists to define and execute our video strategy. Your work will enhance our platform's video quality and introduce tools that maximize engagement and sales for our sellers.

Short-Term Objectives:

  • Implement robust measurement and observability.
  • Build video recording pipeline for T&S and user experience
  • Develop initial seller tools for enhanced livestream interaction.

Future Directions:

  • Advance our video features for flawless user experiences.
  • Inform long term video strategy including framework success criteria and creation
  • Lead the innovation in seller tools, enabling peak streaming performance.
  • Evaluate and onboard new video providers.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, or Seattle, WA hubs.

šŸ‘‹ 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 Video Engineer you should have:

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience with scaled WebRTC system
  • Excellent ability to translate product requirements to a scalable system. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
  • You are known for the high quality of your engineering designs.
  • You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do.
  • AWS/DevOps experience

šŸ’°Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $190,000/year to $260,000/year + benefits + equity.

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.

šŸŽ 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

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

  • 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.

šŸ’› 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.

About Whatnot

šŸ‘„11-50
šŸ“Marina Del Rey, California, United States
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How does Whatnot work?

providing a platform that customers can safely buy, sell, go live and geek out with collectors and other like-minded people

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