Software Engineer, Buyer Growth

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $185,000 PA - $205,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Buyer Growth team at Whatnot is looking for a Software Engineer to drive top-of-funnel growth and first-time buyer success. Responsibilities include leading and scaling growth initiatives, designing and owning end-to-end systems, collaborating across product, marketing, and data science, and improving funnels for user conversion and retention. This role requires working across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment to help new users and turn them into loyal customers.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Experience with user-facing products.
  • Ability to take ownership and drive impact.
  • Ability to work across multiple workstreams.
Good to have:
  • Experience building E-commerce or Social products
  • Fullstack or mobile development experience
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Holidays
  • Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Monthly allowance for wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning
  • 401k offering in the US
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave

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 Buyer Growth team is responsible for driving Whatnot’s top-of-funnel growth and first-time buyer success. We focus on acquisition, activation, and early retention, partnering closely with product, data, design, and marketing to build experiences that bring new users into the ecosystem and turn them into loyal customers. In this role, you will

  • Lead and scale critical growth initiatives such as onboarding flows, referral systems, guest browsing, notification systems
  • Design and own end-to-end systems, from backend services to frontend experiences, that impact millions of users. Drive architectural decisions to ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and extensible as we scale rapidly.
  • Work across product, marketing, and data science to identify high-leverage growth opportunities and rapidly iterate on experiments.
  • Instrument, monitor, and improve funnels to drive measurable lifts in new user conversion and retention.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to raising the bar for engineering excellence across the team.

US Based:

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

👋 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. 

  • 5+ years of full-time, generalist software engineering experience in high growth tech companies. 
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Proven track record of delivering end-to-end user-facing products and the ability to work across the stack (backend and frontend). 
  • Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
  • Ability to take ownership of an ambiguous area and define and then drive impact.
  • Ability to flexibly work across multiple workstreams, thriving in a fast-paced environment
  • Preferred Qualifications:
    • Experience building E-commerce or Social products
    • Fullstack or mobile development experience

💰Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $185,000/year to $205,000/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.

🎁 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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