Whatnot is looking to drive top-of-funnel growth and first-time buyer success on their live shopping platform by focusing on acquisition, activation, and early retention. They need to build experiences that bring new users into the ecosystem and turn them into loyal customers.
Requirements
- A strong foundation in backend and frontend development.
- Experience building E-commerce or Social products
- Expertise in mobile and/or full stack web development frameworks
- Familiarity with growth engineering strategies, A/B testing, and analytics
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale critical growth initiatives such as onboarding flows, referral systems, guest browsing, notification systems
- Design and own end-to-end systems, from backend services to frontend experiences, that impact millions of users.
- Drive architectural decisions to ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and extensible as we scale rapidly.
- Work across product, marketing, and data science to identify high-leverage growth opportunities and rapidly iterate on experiments.
- Instrument, monitor, and improve funnels to drive measurable lifts in new user conversion and retention.
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to raising the bar for engineering excellence across the team.
Other
- Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or New York hubs.
- 5+ years of full-time, generalist software engineering experience in high growth tech companies, and a track record of delivering impactful, user-facing products autonomously.
- Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
- Ability to take ownership of an ambiguous area and define and then drive impact.
- Ability to flexibly work across multiple workstreams, thriving in a fast-paced environment
