Staff Software Engineer, Discovery Platform
Whatnot, San Francisco, California +3
The role
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical work across Discovery Platform and product-facing retrieval and recommendations. You'll spend roughly 60% of your time strengthening the platform's capacity, reliability, and shared building blocks, and 40% partnering with ranking and machine learning engineers to bring new discovery experiences to buyers. You'll join a small team of senior backend engineers who own their systems from design through production and on-call.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone who finds the most important problems in ambiguous spaces, creates a path forward, and builds solutions that improve both the buyer experience and the pace at which other teams can ship.
What you will do
- Design and evolve search and serving infrastructure that performs reliably through live shopping traffic spikes, including our largest sales events.