Software Engineer Intern (Fall 2025)

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Whatnot is seeking intellectually curious and highly motivated individuals for a 12-16 week remote internship during Fall 2025. Interns will work in cross-functional teams, contributing to solving complex technical challenges and defining future engineering initiatives. Projects may include building new features for live streams, implementing growth strategies, and developing scalable systems for a high-trust marketplace. The internship aims to provide core industry skills in project ideation, management, and collaboration within one of the fastest-growing marketplaces.
Must have:
  • Pursuing a computer science or related degree
  • Graduating Dec 2025 or Summer 2026
  • Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
  • Willing to take risks
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly
Good to have:
  • Industry software engineering experience
Perks:
  • $150/month dogfooding budget
  • $150/month wifi/phone reimbursement

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

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us for a 12-16 week remote internship during Fall 2025. Our interns work in cross-functional multidisciplinary teams enabling you to directly impact the direction of our platform. Your code and ideas will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges we face today and define future engineering initiatives. While relocation is not required for this role, as a Whatnot intern you have access to our offices in SF, LA, and NYC. 

Some sample projects you might work on are: 

  • Building new features for users in our live-streams
  • Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
  • Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high trust marketplace experience

By the end of your internship, you will have contributed to one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever while gaining core industry skills of project ideation, management and collaboration.

👋 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 Engineering Intern you should have some industry software engineering experience, plus

  • Pursuing a degree in computer science or other related major graduating in Dec 2025 or by Summer 2026
  • Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
  • Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
  • Ability to pick up on new technologies quickly

🎁 Benefits

  • $150/month dogfooding budget 
    • We expect all employees to actively use the product!
  • $150/month wifi/phone reimbursement 

💛 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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