Engineering Manager

Whatnot•Los Angeles, CA

20h•$245,000 - $335,000•Remote

About The Position

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 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 and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. 💻 Role Engineering Manager (Whatnot Inc.; Culver City, CA): Plan and manage software projects, coordinating and aligning the team’s goals against others across the business. Define different seller cuts and measuring the seller lifecycle. Make sellers successful throughout their lifecycle, including seller onboarding, seller marketing, growth capabilities, and tooling, and resurrecting churned sellers. Hire and develop engineers across all Whatnot Inc.’s consumer applications and backend systems. Collaborate with product and design counterparts to influence the strategic direction of the team, and advocate for technical solutions. Serve as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces for web and mobile applications. Lead the development of user experiences and the underlying software systems, ensuring alignment between form and function, and effectively guiding teams to build solutions in this manner. Supervise 5 Software Engineers. Telecommuting permitted from within the U.S.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field, plus five (5) years of experience as an Engineering Manager or related occupation.
Must have experience with the following: operating as a technical leader in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces across web and mobile platforms; building user experiences and system backend design and directing teams to build in this manner; recruiting, mentoring, retaining, and measuring high performing teams; leveraging technical debt; instrumenting product metrics and recognizing the value and limits of data; managing stakeholders; and two (2) years of engineering management.

Responsibilities

Plan and manage software projects, coordinating and aligning the team’s goals against others across the business.
Define different seller cuts and measuring the seller lifecycle.
Make sellers successful throughout their lifecycle, including seller onboarding, seller marketing, growth capabilities, and tooling, and resurrecting churned sellers.
Hire and develop engineers across all Whatnot Inc.’s consumer applications and backend systems.
Collaborate with product and design counterparts to influence the strategic direction of the team, and advocate for technical solutions.
Serve as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces for web and mobile applications.
Lead the development of user experiences and the underlying software systems, ensuring alignment between form and function, and effectively guiding teams to build solutions in this manner.
Supervise 5 Software Engineers.

Benefits

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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 for 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
All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
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.