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Summary
About the Role
About You
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience (10+ for Staff-level).
- Strong experience with large-scale backend systems, ideally Python.
- Deep expertise with storage systems (Postgres, DynamoDB, Planetscale).
- Proven experience building or scaling messaging, notification, or caching systems.
- Background in refactoring large codebases for scale, performance, and maintainability.
- Hands-on with runtime and platform optimization such as concurrency models, async patterns, and memory tuning.
- Familiarity with service reliability and observability practices.
- Experience in other stacks (Java, Go, Elixir, etc.).
- Comfortable operating in a cloud-native environment such as AWS or GCP with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
- Known for setting strong technical standards and for building patterns that other engineers adopt.
- Prior experience in a hyper-growth environment.
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- 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
- Parental Leave; 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the US, UK, and Europe—bringing millions together to shop, sell, and connect around the things they love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today. We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live shopping from bags to beauty, comics to coins, sneakers to streetwear, and vintage to vinyl. With over 250+ categories, including electronics, sports and Pokémon cards, fashion, plants, jewelry and more—we’ve got it all! And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.