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
You
📍Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and bias into action goes a long way here. 📍As our next member of the team, you should have 5+ years of experience, plus: 📍Focused expertise in information retrieval technologies such as search and vector databases and the ingest and serving pipelines to scale them 📍Operational knowledge of scaling indices and nearest neighbor algorithms 📍Successfully set the technical vision and direction of an end to end retrieval system 📍Deep understanding of ElasticSearch/OpenSearch/SOLR including its internals such as Apache Lucene and its custom domain specific language and query engines 📍Track record of building scalable and performant distributed systems
In addition to these role-specific qualifications, all engineering team members are expected to have:
📍Experience managing cloud technologies (AWS or Google Cloud) and comfort with infrastructure-as-code approaches (e.g. Terraform). 📍Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (preferably Python), common algorithms and data structures, and software design principles. 📍Self-starter ethic, thriving under a high level of autonomy. 📍Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
