Collaborate closely with our partner team, Payments - Experience, and with other teams and senior leaders across Whatnot.
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.
Manage individual responsibilities and advance an aspect of the domain as an expert in collaboration with the leadership team.
Exercise good judgment and communicate effectively to drive impact in the organization.

Requirements

7+ years of software development experience building scalable systems that can handle millions of users
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

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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
All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allownces run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentscalable systemsdistributed systemstechnical roadmapsystem architecturefrontend developmentPythonElixirJavaScriptpayment systems

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationmentorshipproblem solvingownershipinclusive team buildingproduct instinctsjudgmentleadershipdelegation