This role is ideal for a seasoned back-end or full-stack engineer with at least 7 years of experience who thrives in high-growth startup environments. While the
Work type: remote
Location: New York, NY | Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA | Los Angeles, CA
Salary: $170,000 – $290,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a seasoned back-end or full-stack engineer with at least 7 years of experience who thrives in high-growth startup environments. While the listing is categorized as "mid-level," the requirements suggest a "Senior" profile capable of architecting distributed systems for millions of users. If you have a background in payments, treasury systems, or international e-commerce and enjoy taking full ownership of projects from inception to maintenance, you will fit right in. The compensation is highly competitive ($170k–$290k) and comes with a suite of modern perks, including a 4% 401k match, a "dogfooding" budget to shop on the platform, and a home office setup allowance. Although the company is remote-first, they prioritize "co-location," meaning you must live within commuting distance of their hubs in NYC, Seattle, LA, or San Francisco for occasional in-person collaboration. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have 7+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems (ideally in Python, Elixir, or JavaScript). * Are comfortable acting as a "project owner" who doesn't need a play-by-play manual to ship high-quality code. * Want to solve complex financial challenges like global tax, customs, and fraud mitigation. * Live near one of the four required West/East Coast tech hubs.
## 🚀 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://a16z.com/marketplace-100/) and were recently named the [#1 Best Startup Employer in America](http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) 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 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.
We offer flexibility to work from home or our office hub, 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, Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco hubs.
## 👋 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 Senior Software Engineer, you should have 7+ years of software development experience building scalable systems that can handle millions of users, plus:
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.