Whatnot

Whatnot

Engineering Manager, Feed

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
PythonMachine LearningIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • 🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
  • We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.
  • They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

Responsibilities

  • Lead backend engineering for the Feed team, including Whatnot's feed and recommendation systems, with a major focus on feed insertions as a lever to help small sellers and new categories grow.
  • Lead and grow a team of backend engineers while raising the bar on engineering quality, backend architecture, scale, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Own a scope that spans both feed experiences and feed foundations, including ranking and product surfaces like For You, category feeds, and vertical scroll, as well as shared backend capabilities like shadow traffic, filtering, hydration, and logging.
  • Partner with senior engineers and tech leads on technical direction, system design, and engineering tradeoffs, while creating clarity around Feed engineering scope across shared and sometimes fragmented workstreams.
  • Build strong team operating mechanisms across planning, execution visibility, rollout discipline, on-call, incident response, and accountability for production behavior.
  • Coach and develop engineers across the team, improving mentoring consistency, team effectiveness, and the organization's ability to scale through ambiguity.
  • 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.
  • Engineering management or tech lead management experience leading backend engineers in fast-moving product or platform environments.
  • Strong experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend systems, with a track record of improving engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Compensation

  • Annual allowance towards Childcare

Benefits

  • Bonus if you have experience in discovery, search, recommendations, feeds, information retrieval, ML-adjacent systems, or modern backend stacks such as Python, or Go.
  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for wellness
  • 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

Company info

  • Whatnot is the largest live 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 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.
  • 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.
  • We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead backend engineering for our Feed team within the Discovery organization.
  • This team is responsible for building
  • 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 City hub.
  • 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.
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