🚀 JOIN THE FUTURE OF COMMERCE WITH WHATNOT!
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.
As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values https://www.whatnot.com/careers and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/ and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/ and engineering blogs https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
💻 ROLE
We’re hiring Android Engineers to join our Seller Engineering org within our International team and Inventory team. The International team is focused on expanding Whatnot beyond the U.S., driving growth across our core markets including the UK, France, Germany, Australia, and others—they are responsible for elevating the end-to-end international user experience across the entire product. The Inventory team builds the foundations that let sellers manage inventory at scale while keeping buyer-facing surfaces accurate and up to date.
You’ll design and build mobile experiences and systems that sit at the heart of the seller and buyer experience—combining growth, trust, and scalability. Your work will directly shape how thousands of new sellers and buyers discover Whatnot, get started, and succeed every week.
- Develop high-quality Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend teams to define goals, scope, and technical trade-offs.
- Contribute to the evolution of shared mobile infrastructure and best practices across Whatnot’s engineering teams.
- Uphold engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, and thoughtful discussions that raise the bar.
We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York or San Francisco hub.
👋 YOU
People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, bias