Android Engineer, App Platform

Whatnot; New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco (NY, CA, WA, CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Whatnot, the largest livestream shopping platform, is seeking an Android engineer for its App Platform team. In this role, you will enhance the core mobile infrastructure, focusing on stability, performance, and observability across the app. Ideal candidates have strong Android development skills and experience in fast-paced environments. Join us as we redefine e-commerce and build innovative solutions for our community.

Benefits

Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, and Vision

Work From Home support

Retirement plans such as 401(k)

Monthly allowance to explore and test the app

Parental Leave: 16 weeks of paid parental leave

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience in high-growth startups.
• Expertise in Android development focusing on user interfaces.
• Ability to translate user needs into effective technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to core mobile infrastructure focusing on stability and performance.
• Scale and refine the Android stack to enable developer velocity.
• Monitor and understand app performance through diagnostics.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Reactive Programming

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Ownership Mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

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. We’re redefining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest-growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us to turn your passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

About the Role

The App Platform team at Whatnot builds the shared foundations that power every mobile experience. As an Android engineer on this team, you'll contribute to core mobile infrastructure focusing on stability, performance, and observability across the entire app surface. This includes building and maintaining frameworks that make our mobile apps resilient, fast, and deeply measurable—enabling teams across Whatnot to deliver world-class experiences to our users.

You’ll help scale and refine our Android stack, design tools and patterns that enable developer velocity, and lead efforts to ensure that every session, stream, and tap is monitored and understood. From low-level crash segmentation to high-level stream health diagnostics, you'll be part of the team that defines what excellence looks like on Whatnot's Android application.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, or Krakow.

Ideal Candidate

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Android engineer on the App Platform team, you should have 3+ years of full-time software engineering experience in high-growth startups, plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Expertise in Android development with a focus on fluid, responsive user interfaces. Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Proficiency in reactive programming with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows. Experience with MVI or MVVM architecture.
• Product instinct: Ability to translate user needs into effective technical solutions.
• Problem-solving skills: Thrive in ambiguity and tackle challenging problems with creativity and autonomy.
• Team leadership: Proactively improve the team environment and foster an inclusive, supportive culture.
• Ownership mindset: Own projects from inception to production and beyond, shipping high-quality products quickly.

Compensation and Benefits

For US-based applicants: $165,000/year to $216,000/year + benefits + equity. The final salary depends on level, experience, skills, and expertise. This range includes base salary only, excluding benefits and equity.

Benefits include:

• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Work From Home support:
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cellphone and internet
• Retirement plans such as 401(k) (with employer match up to 4%) in the US and pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to explore and test the app (dogfooding): All Whatnauts are encouraged to develop a deep understanding of our product by using Whatnot as both buyers and sellers.
• Parental Leave: 16 weeks of paid parental leave plus a one-month gradual return to work (company leave allowances run concurrently with country-specific leave requirements).

Equal Opportunity

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability, or any other protected status. We believe that our work is better and our culture is stronger when we support and respect the diverse skills and experiences within our workforce.

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