**Who this is for** This role is for a frontend-focused engineer passionate about improving the seller experience by building intuitive, efficient merchant tool
Work type: onsite
Location: New York, NY | Seattle, WA
Salary: $170,000 – $230,000/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a frontend-focused engineer passionate about improving the seller experience by building intuitive, efficient merchant tools for a live commerce platform. **Key highlights** You will be embedded within the Seller Engineering team to help redesign the seller journey, ensuring that listing and managing merchandise is a seamless and pixel-perfect experience. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 3+ years of experience with an emphasis on React, GraphQL, and modern web frameworks like Next.js. - Combine technical expertise with strong product instincts and the ability to implement high-fidelity designs. - Are comfortable advocating for the user by challenging project ideas and offering constructive outside perspectives. - Demonstrate strong ownership, taking projects from initial conceptualization to full production deployment.
## 🚀 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. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.
As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our [values](https://www.whatnot.com/careers) and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
We're one of the [fastest growing marketplaces](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/dealbook/whatnot-livestream-shopping-fundraise.html) and were recently named the [#1 Best Startup Employer in America](https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/) by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our [news](https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/) and [engineering blogs](https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering) and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
## 💻 Role
The Merchant Systems Experience team, nested within Seller Engineering, supports sellers with managing their merchandise on Whatnot and representing it as accurately as possible so they can reach more buyers. We strive to do this in the fewest steps possible so sellers can get back to what they do best: selling and engaging with their community. You'll be at the forefront of building a redesigned vision for how our sellers sell live on Whatnot today.
We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York or Seattle hub.
## 👋 You
People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.
As our next Software Engineer, you should have 3+ years of software engineering experience, particularly an expert in frontend web development with React, using GraphQL for API development, and modern frontend applications. Exposure to Next.js framework is not required but preferred. You also:
## 💛 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.