Frontend Engineer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • $185,000 PA - $205,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Frontend Engineer on the Trust & Safety team at Whatnot, you will build systems and features to ensure users have positive and safe experiences. This involves building systems to moderate shows, help the internal team action and mitigate issues, and solve complex problems to detect bad behavior. The role requires making sound product decisions, navigating new domains, taking ownership, and delivering high-quality products quickly. The team values individuals with strong ownership instincts and the ability to manage projects from inception to production.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Expert in frontend web development with React, JavaScript.
  • Experience using GraphQL for API development.
  • Implement pixel perfect design based on design team requests.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Comfortable sharing insights and giving feedback.
Good to have:
  • Experience with Next.js framework.
  • Experience with complex web-based tooling.
  • Startup experience at a high-growth company.
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays.
  • Health Insurance options including 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.
  • Retirement; 401k offering in the US and Pension plans internationally.
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app.
  • 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

Trust & Safety is an engineering team at Whatnot that is dedicated to building systems and features which ensure our users have positive, safe experiences on Whatnot - we believe everyone is entitled to thrive on our platform. 

  • As a software engineer on the T&S team, you can expect to build systems and products that allow our users to better moderate their shows, help our internal team action and mitigate issues, solve complex systems problems to monitor and detect bad behavior from reams of data, and build solutions that scale to our next 20x of growth.
  • 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 make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential to us.

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.

As our next Frontend Engineer, you should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, particularly an expert in frontend web development with React, JavaScript, using GraphQL for API development, and modern frontend applications. Exposure to Next.js framework is not required but preferred. You also: 

  • Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • Have excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
  • Can implement pixel perfect design, following what the design team is asking for
  • Are comfortable sharing your insights - you’re not afraid to push back on the teams ideas to call out potential blind spots and bring an outside perspective
  • Understanding of backend technologies, creating seamless connections between the frontend and backend. 
  • Have a proven track record of delivering features end-to-end
  • Are a project owner - you have strong ownership instincts and can own projects from inception to production and beyond 
  • Have experience with complex web based tooling like dashboards or shipping tooling (nice to have)
  • Have startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have)

💰Compensation

$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
    • We expect all employees to actively use the product!
  • 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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