Whatnot is hiring a

Web3 Frontend Engineer, Risk

🚀 Whatnot Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today. We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions from fashion, beauty, electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants. Whatnot has something for everyone. And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 💻 Role Risk is an engineering team at Whatnot that is dedicated to building systems and features which ensure our users have positive, safe experiences on Whatnot - we believe everyone is entitled to thrive on our platform. 

As a software engineer on the Risk team, you can expect to build systems and products that allow our users to better moderate their shows, help our internal team action and mitigate issues, solve complex systems problems to monitor & detect bad behavior from reams of data, and build solutions that scale to our next 20x of growth. The most important qualities you'll need are making sound product decisions, navigating new domains seamlessly, taking extreme ownership, and shipping high-quality products fast. We always prioritize the highest impact features and ship them quickly.  The software team has a lot of individual responsibility and many more freedoms, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential to us.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, and Seattle, WA hubs. 👋 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 Frontend Engineer, you should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, particularly an expert in frontend web development with React, JavaScript, using GraphQL for API development, and modern frontend applications. Exposure to Next.js framework is not required but preferred. You also: 

Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience Have excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution Can implement pixel perfect design, following what the design team is asking for Are comfortable sharing your insights - you’re not afraid to push back on the teams ideas to call out potential blind spots and bring an outside perspective Understanding of backend technologies, creating seamless connections between the frontend and backend.  Have a proven track record of delivering features end-to-end Are a project owner - you have strong ownership instincts and can own projects from inception to production and beyond  Have experience with complex web based tooling like dashboards or shipping tooling (nice to have) Have startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have)

💰Compensation $185,000/year to $205,000/year + benefits + equity The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity. 🎁 Benefits

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 *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

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