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Software Engineer, Discovery (Feed)

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United States , New York, NY

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Salary:

195000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot. Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to be foundational members of our Discovery Feed & Personalization team. You will partner across the company to lead our Exploration efforts to help new sellers and small categories grow and thrive.

Job Responsibility:

  • Ship product features to deliver high-quality Discovery experiences for users
  • Build and maintain a scalable, stable, low latency feed experience
  • Build the services and infrastructure to enable efficient exploration systems to help small sellers and new categories grow
  • Lead a workstream of multiple other software engineers as the individual responsible for success
  • Partner closely across the machine learning, platform, and product engineering teams to utilize models to solve discovery problems
  • Contribute scalable solutions across various serving stacks at the feed, search, machine learning service, and Discovery application layers
  • Define and advance our technical approach to scalable recommendation systems

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of experience
  • Industry experience with a track record of applying practical methods to solve real-world problems on consumer scale data
  • Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams
  • Experience in discovery-related fields (e.g. Recommendations, Content Understanding, Search, etc.)
  • Expert at designing and building scalable and maintainable backend systems
  • Firm grasp of visualization tools for monitoring and logging e.g. DataDog, Grafana
  • Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Kafka, Flink/Spark
What we offer:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • 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 on both food and 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
  • Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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