Staff Software Engineer, Payments

3 Months ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer, Payments - Treasury team at Whatnot is globally responsible for the movement and recording of money and credit in all customer transactions, along with taxes, customs, returns, and refunds. This role involves collaborating with the Payments - Experience team and senior leaders to improve critical infrastructure, payment options, fraud mitigation, and transaction modeling for a seamless international marketplace. The engineer will be responsible for making tradeoffs, exercising judgment, and communicating effectively. They are expected to be an expert in their domain and work in collaboration with the leadership team.
Must have:
  • Excellent product instincts, focusing on users and objectives.
  • Experience designing complex distributed systems for millions of users.
  • Define the technical roadmap and lead cross-team solutions.
  • Identify and build systems/products to improve business.
  • Excellent problem solver and independent worker.
  • Open to frontend work when required.
  • Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies.
Good to have:
  • Experience working with payment systems.
  • Experience with international commerce.
  • Startup experience at a high-growth company.
  • Knowledge of multiple programming languages.
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays.
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision.
  • Work From Home Support including home office setup allowance and monthly allowance for cell phone and internet.
  • Care benefits including monthly allowance for wellness and annual allowance towards Childcare.
  • Pension plan.
  • 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 Payments - Treasury team at Whatnot are globally responsible for how our business moves and records money and credit in all customer transactions; and how taxes, customs, returns, refunds and more just work, no matter where our customers are in the world. We are deeply connected with the foundations of our business and have unlocked tremendous growth within and across international territories, while creating exciting new ways for our users to interact and transact on the platform. You’ll collaborate closely with our partner team, Payments - Experience, and with other teams and senior leaders across Whatnot. 

To keep the flywheel spinning, we’re looking to make a number of substantial improvements to critical infrastructure supporting payment scale & reliability, diversity of payment options, fraud mitigation, and improvements in transaction modelling and tax to further provide a seamless international marketplace.

Each member of the team has a number of individual responsibilities and is trusted to advance an aspect of the domain as an expert in collaboration with the leadership team. Your ability to make good trade-offs, exercise good judgment and communicate effectively is essential to us.

👋 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 Staff Software Engineer, you should have 8+ years of software development experience building scalable systems that can handle millions of users, plus:

  • Excellent product instincts. You first think about users and long term objectives when designing a technical solution.
  • You have designed complex distributed systems that power products used by millions of users.
  • You’re seasoned in defining the technical roadmap for team, identifying areas that need improvement and leading cross-team solutions.
  • You can identify, architect, and build the right systems or products to improve the business.
  • You deeply understand and can explain the various trade offs made in decisions.
  • You enable collaboration across multiple teams to deliver on cross-team initiatives, while delegating ownership and uplifting those around you.
  • You can mentor others, and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams.
  • You’re a project owner - you have strong ownership instincts and can own projects from inception to production to maintenance.
  • You’re known for shipping high quality products and features quickly and iteratively towards the ultimate goal.
  • You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do.
  • You’re open to doing frontend work when required.
  • Have the ability to quickly become effective in new technologies.
  • Have experience working with payment systems, infrastructure, and international commerce (nice to have).
  • Have startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have).
  • Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript - direct experience is nice to have for a well balanced candidate).

🎁 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
  • Pension plan
  • 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.

Similar Jobs

nord current - Junior QA Game Console Tester

nord current

Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Applied materials  - Global Product Support Engineer

Applied materials

Singapore (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Xentrix studios - Texturing – Artist

Xentrix studios

India (On-Site)
8 Months ago
Keywords Studios - Dutch Content Moderator - Gaming

Keywords Studios

Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Vimeo - Principal Product Designer, Teams/ Collaboration

Vimeo

New York, United States (Remote)
3 Weeks ago
Capgemini - Digital Continuity & Manufacturing Engineer

Capgemini

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Hudl - Engineering Manager

Hudl

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Go Fund Me - Technical Support Engineer I

Go Fund Me

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Hybrid)
2 Weeks ago
Accenture - Software Development Engineer

Accenture

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Apple - Cellular Power Verification Engineer

Apple

San Diego, California, United States (On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

CO:Create - Artist Solutions Lead

CO:Create

New York, United States (Remote)
1 Month ago
Flying Bark - Layout Artist

Flying Bark

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Hybrid)
2 Years ago
Harvey - Mid Market Customer Success Manager

Harvey

San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
OKX - Finance Business Partner Senior Manager

OKX

Singapore (On-Site)
2 Months ago
CD PROJEKT RED - Community Lead – Asia

CD PROJEKT RED

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (Remote)
1 Month ago
IMC - Paralegal

IMC

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Tagwiz - Lead Game Developer

Tagwiz

(On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
PwC - Senior Associate SAP ABAP Advisory Corporate

PwC

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Unisys - Field Technician - Piracicaba- SP

Unisys

Piracicaba, State Of São Paulo, Brazil (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Feld Entertainment - Tour Coordinator

Feld Entertainment

United States (On-Site)
2 Years ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

version 1 - Power App Platform Functional Lead - SME

version 1

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Scopely - Senior Product Manager (Growth) - Star Trek Fleet Command

Scopely

Ireland (Remote)
5 Months ago
PayPal - SMB Sales Manager

PayPal

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Survay Monkey - Treasury Manager

Survay Monkey

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Ion - Contract and Commercial Data Analyst

Ion

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Pinterest - Sr. Client Partner - Retail, German Market

Pinterest

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Rippling - Manager, Sales Development (Outbound)

Rippling

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Toast - Principal Software Engineer, Android

Toast

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Trellix - Manager, Customer Success

Trellix

Cork, County Cork, Ireland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
PwC - Pursuits Senior Manager

PwC

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (On-Site)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Software Development & Engineering Jobs

Nagarro - Senior Engineer, Sharepoint

Nagarro

India (Remote)
9 Months ago
bytedance - Software Development Engineer Graduate (SDN Traffic Intelligence & Control) - 2025 Start (PhD)

bytedance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Apple - Software Engineer — CloudKit Client

Apple

San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
WebTech Corporation - Senior Engineer – Power Architect and EMI

WebTech Corporation

Shanghai, China (On-Site)
2 Months ago
DreamCraft - Senior Software Engineer

DreamCraft

Redwood City, California, United States (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Cadence - Software Engineer II: VIP

Cadence

Brazil (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Assystems - Senior Site Engineer- Civil

Assystems

Gujrat, Punjab, India (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Aristocrat - Sr Engineer II

Aristocrat

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (Hybrid)
1 Week ago
Silicon Labs - Lead Engineer - IC Design

Silicon Labs

Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid)
2 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded