Role

📍You will work in cross-functional multidisciplinary teams, allowing you to directly impact the reliability of our platform. Your designs, code, and ideas will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges we face today, and help define future engineering initiatives.

Some sample projects you might work on are:

📍Driving architectural changes to improve reliability and scalability Improving observability 📍Graceful degradation and automatic failover mechanisms for core business flows 📍Reliable end-to-end communication 📍Chaos engineering tools & tests 📍Stress-testing tooling 📍Providing other engineering teams with core primitives for networking, overload protection, and data access 📍Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Kraków, Poland hub.

You

📍Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here. 📍As our next Software Engineer, you should have 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience, building scalable systems that can handle millions of users, plus: 📍Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience. 📍Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction. 📍Prior experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Terraform. 📍Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship new products lightning-fast. We primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript, but previous knowledge of each is not required. 📍Excellent communication and writing skills.