Director, Logistics Engineering

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $250,000 PA - $330,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Director of Logistics Engineering at Whatnot, you will be responsible for leading the technical strategy for the logistics team. You will collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders to build scalable systems for shipping, carrier integrations, and user experience. You will oversee a growing engineering team, focusing on fulfillment options, internal services, and reporting infrastructure. The role involves system design, technical decision-making, and fostering a culture of technical rigor and customer focus. This role requires driving technical strategy, leading platform teams, and communicating with clarity across engineering, product, and business teams. You will need to identify core architectural investments, execute against long-term roadmaps, and show a bias for action.
Must have:
  • Drive technical strategy and mentor engineers.
  • Lead platform teams providing APIs and services.
  • Strong product sense and customer empathy.
  • Thrive in ambiguity and execute roadmaps.
  • Communicate and influence across teams.
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays.
  • 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.
  • 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

Job Details

🚀 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 

The Logistics team at Whatnot focuses on all things shipping for our sellers and buyers globally — including global carrier integrations, providing tools to sellers to ship quickly and efficiently, opening up new lines of business, showing accurate tracking to buyers, and more. Logistics is deeply connected with the foundations of our business and unlock tremendous growth while creating exciting new ways for our users to have the highest quality shipping experience with Whatnot.

As our Director of Logistics Engineering, you will be responsible for setting and executing the technical strategy for one of Whatnot’s most foundational teams. You’ll work in close partnership with product, design, and a wide array of internal stakeholders to build scalable systems and services that power logistics across the platform. You’ll lead a growing engineering team through a period of rapid expansion, and play a key role in shaping how sellers and buyers experience fulfillment, delivery, and everything in between.

In this role, you will:

  • Own the long-term platform and product strategy for Logistics engineering, including carrier integrations, internal logistics APIs, and user-facing fulfillment options.
  • Guide architectural decisions and technical foundations to support scale, flexibility, and resilience in our global logistics systems.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration with teams like Marketplace, Payments, T&S, Customer Experience, and Finance to support shared use of logistics data and services.
  • Develop foundational infrastructure for a broad range of fulfillment options — from local pickup to freight — while ensuring optionality and configurability for sellers.
  • Build internal logistics services that operate like an internal SaaS platform — exposing clean APIs and generating margin via handling fees and label sales.
  • Lead initiatives to dramatically reduce time-to-integration for new shipping carriers, both domestic and international.
  • Provide accurate, robust reporting infrastructure used by business teams to assess margins, financial health, and service reliability.
  • Stay hands-on in system design and technical decision-making while empowering engineers to take ownership and grow.
  • Foster a culture of high technical rigor, customer-first thinking, and continuous improvement.

This role is required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hub.

👋 You 

In addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates will also:

  • Be able to drive technical strategy while staying close enough to the details to meaningfully mentor and develop engineers across experience levels.
  • Have experience leading platform teams that provide foundational APIs and services used by multiple product and business teams.
  • Demonstrate strong product sense and customer empathy, especially in balancing internal platform needs with external user experience.
  • Thrive in ambiguity, with the ability to identify core architectural investments and execute against long-term roadmaps without perfect specs.
  • Communicate with clarity and influence across engineering, product, and business teams — aligning technical direction with company goals.
  • Show an eagerness to grow and scale a team, with experience hiring, mentoring, and setting up strong engineering management practices.
  • Move fluidly between high-level strategy and in-the-weeds problem-solving — this is not a “pure people manager” role.
  • Exhibit a bias for action and pragmatism when making build-vs-buy decisions, especially in platform or integration-heavy environments.
  • Embrace the mindset of a builder — someone who chose to lead in order to scale their impact through others, not just to manage process.

💰Compensation

$250,000/year to $330,000/year + benefits + equity

🎁 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
  • 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.

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