Ads Software Engineer

🚀 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.

💻 Role 

Ads is a growing engineering team at Whatnot that is dedicated to building systems & features to help Sellers grow their business. As a software engineer on the Ads team, the most important qualities you'll need are making sound product decisions, navigating new domains seamlessly, taking extreme ownership, and shipping high-quality products fast. We always prioritize the highest impact features and ship them quickly. The software team has a lot of individual responsibility and many more freedoms, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to put customers first, make good trade-offs and deliver impact is essential to us.

In this role, you will…

• Build highly scalable Ads system that handles all aspects of running an online advertising system and helps sellers differentiate themselves on Whatnot
• Focus on the web-based aspects of ad flows and the ad dashboard, with occasional backend work
• Maintain web apps, develop new features and potentially work around infrastructure.
• Understand our buyer and seller experiences and become an expert in helping them effectively scale their business through ads & monetization products

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Kraków, Poland hub.

👋 You 

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

As our next New Grad Engineer on the Ads team, you should have a graduation date between December 2024 and June 2025 plus:

• Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript - knowledge of these in particular not required)
• Previous internship experience
• Excellent product instincts. Thinks about users first and cares about building intuitive, high-impact products
• Can take a project from idea to launch, shipping features quickly while maintaining quality
• Enjoy taking ownership of projects and seeing them through from start to finish
• Learn new technologies quickly and is excited to grow in a fast-paced environment
• An excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do
• (Nice to have) Has exposure to ads systems, infrastructure, or international commerce

💛 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.