Android Engineer at Whatnot (W20)
Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S.
Los Angeles, CA / San Francisco, CA / Scottsdale, AZ / New York, NY
Full-time
3+ years
About Whatnot

Whatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and build a community with other like-minded people.

We got our start offering a buying and selling experience to collectors of Funko Pops and Pokemon cards. We became the leading marketplace for those communities and have found success launching into categories like sports cards, NFTs, and vintage fashion.

In July of 2022, we raised $260 million in a Series D funding round bringing our valuation to $3.7 billion, a 2.5x increase since our $1.5 billion valuation in September of 2021.

Our mission is to enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We enable anyone to connect, transact and build a business in one place -- Whatnot is bringing the in-person retail experience online.

About the role
Skills: Kotlin

About Whatnot

Whatnot is a Livestream shopping and community marketplace where you can geek out with collectors and other like-minded people. Whatnot is backed by some of the industry’s best venture capital investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. If enabling creators to make a living off their passion and building the future of e-commerce gets you excited, please apply!

The Role

We're looking for Android engineers with a proven track record for building slick UI's that people love. Whatnot is growing very rapidly, so you must be able to deal with the pressure/growth that comes with a high-growth environment. You will be working in a high-growth startup, wearing multiple hats.

The software team has a lot of individual responsibility and a lot more freedoms, so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is particularly important to us.

Responsibilities

  • Write well-tested, high-quality code
  • Wear your product hat. Whatnot operates without a product team, giving engineering full reign of the product
  • Work closely with the backend and iOS developers, data science, and the design team

Qualifications

  • Experience with native Android application development
  • Experience writing readable, maintainable, and scalable code
  • Strong attention to detail; without a product team, it’s up to us to craft the best experience possible
  • Constantly strives to push yourself and the team forward through technical and intellectual rigor

Bonus Requirements

  • Kotlin (with multiplatform), Coroutines/Flow, Dagger, Conductor
  • GraphQL
  • Unit + Snapshot testing
  • Startup experience at a high-growth company
  • Integrating live video streaming within apps
  • Can also build iOS apps
  • Backend development experience in languages such as Python, Elixir
  • GraphQL/Apollo experience

Compensation Full-time and benefits (top-quality healthcare benefits, generous parental leave, unlimited vacation policy, lunch, internet & cell phone expensed, highly competitive compensation, equity)

Technology

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Serverless

Databases: Postgres, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis

Backend: Python (Flask), Node, Elixir

Front-End React, GraphQL, Swift, Kotlin

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