New York City, United States of America Remote (City)

Whatnot is hiring a Software Engineer, Discovery (Feed)

Join a team focused on shaping how users discover content in a fast-growing livestream shopping environment. In this role, you'll design and maintain high-performance backend systems that power personalized feed experiences, ensuring low latency and strong scalability. Your work will directly influence how new sellers and smaller product categories gain visibility and grow.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and deploy features that enhance content discovery for users
  • Design and operate reliable, high-throughput feed services
  • Build infrastructure to support exploration mechanisms that elevate underrepresented sellers and categories
  • Lead technical initiatives and guide the work of other engineers
  • Collaborate with machine learning, platform, and product teams to integrate data-driven solutions
  • Design scalable systems across feed, search, ML serving, and application layers
  • Shape the long-term technical direction for recommendation and discovery platforms

What We're Looking For

  • At least five years of professional software engineering experience
  • A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Proven ability to solve complex problems at consumer scale
  • Strong background in discovery domains such as recommendations, search, or content understanding
  • Experience building robust, maintainable backend systems
  • Skill in monitoring and observability using tools like DataDog or Grafana
  • Familiarity with AWS services including Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS, ECS, Kafka, Flink, and Spark

Work Environment

This role supports remote work with a requirement to live near one of our hubs in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, or Los Angeles. The team values in-person collaboration for planning and problem-solving, while maintaining flexibility for remote work. We prioritize outcomes, encourage curiosity, and move quickly with purpose.

Required Skills
KinesisEKSKafkaApache SparkDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureMicroservices
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About company
Whatnot
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe where users can buy, sell, and discover items across hundreds of categories such as trading cards, fashion, electronics, and live plants. The company enables sellers to build real businesses and is pioneering live commerce at scale in the West.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 6 months ago