About the company
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote-first team, we operate out of hubs within the US, Canada, UK, and Germany today. We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.
Job Summary
In this role, you will:
📍Own the long-term platform and product strategy for Logistics engineering, including carrier integrations, internal logistics APIs, and user-facing fulfillment options. 📍Guide architectural decisions and technical foundations to support scale, flexibility, and resilience in our global logistics systems. 📍Drive cross-functional collaboration with teams like Marketplace, Payments, T&S, Customer Experience, and Finance to support shared use of logistics data and services. 📍Develop foundational infrastructure for a broad range of fulfillment options — from local pickup to freight — while ensuring optionality and configurability for sellers. 📍Build internal logistics services that operate like an internal SaaS platform — exposing clean APIs and generating margin via handling fees and label sales. 📍Lead initiatives to dramatically reduce time-to-integration for new shipping carriers, both domestic and international. 📍Provide accurate, robust reporting infrastructure used by business teams to assess margins, financial health, and service reliability. 📍Stay hands-on in system design and technical decision-making while empowering engineers to take ownership and grow. 📍Foster a culture of high technical rigor, customer-first thinking, and continuous improvement. 📍This role is required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hub.
You
đź“ŤIn addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates will also: đź“ŤBe able to drive technical strategy while staying close enough to the details to meaningfully mentor and develop engineers across experience levels. đź“ŤHave experience leading platform teams that provide foundational APIs and services used by multiple product and business teams. đź“ŤDemonstrate strong product sense and customer empathy, especially in balancing internal platform needs with external user experience. đź“ŤThrive in ambiguity, with the ability to identify core architectural investments and execute against long-term roadmaps without perfect specs.
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