Android Engineer, Growth

Whatnot; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time off Policy

Health Insurance options

Work From Home Support

Retirement 401k offerings

Parental Leave

Job summary

A leading live shopping platform in California is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to enhance the seller onboarding experience. You'll develop high-quality Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve seller success. The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience and a strong background in Android application development. This position offers competitive compensation in a dynamic and innovative work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building high-quality Android applications.
• Strong knowledge in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience working cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality Android features using Kotlin.
• Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams.
• Design experiments to measure seller success.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Reactive programming with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Datadog

Job description

Android Engineer, Seller Growth

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This range is provided by Whatnot. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base Pay Range

$190,000.00/yr - $260,000.00/yr

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining 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, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, 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 as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

The Seller Growth Engineering team is responsible for growing sellers on Whatnot — enabling them to turn their hobbies into businesses. Within Seller Growth, the Platform pod ensures that this growth is sustainable, trustworthy, and scalable.

As a Senior Android Engineer on the Seller Growth Platform pod, you’ll design and build the mobile experiences and systems that sit at the heart of the new seller funnel — combining growth, trust, and scalability. Your work will directly shape how thousands of new sellers join and succeed on Whatnot every week.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose that enhance the seller onboarding, verification, and incentive journeys.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend teams to define goals, scope, and technical trade-offs.
• Partner with data science to design and interpret experiments that measure seller success and improve funnel efficiency.
• Contribute to the evolution of shared mobile infrastructure and best practices across Whatnot’s engineering teams.
• Uphold engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, and thoughtful discussions that raise the bar.

This pod works at the intersection of growth, trust, and platform-ization. You’ll be responsible for deeply technical systems (IDV, fraud signal repositories, seller enrichment pipelines, predictive models) that directly influence GMV, seller retention, and buyer trust. The pace is fast: every week, thousands of sellers apply to sell, and your work ensures that Whatnot can confidently scale this influx without compromising marketplace integrity.

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

👋 You

About

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here, but here are a few criteria we're looking for in this role:

Qualifications

As our next Senior Android Engineer you should have 5+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality Android applications, plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Android expertise in creating fluid, responsive user interfaces. Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Adept at reactive programming with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows. Fluent in MVI or MVVM development.
• Care deeply about product quality and performance, creating polished experiences that balance usability and trust.
• Thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering effectively with product, design, and backend peers.
• Are comfortable using data and experimentation (SQL, Snowflake, A/B testing) to guide decisions.
• Communicate clearly and drive alignment across teams in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Have a growth mindset, taking ownership from concept to launch while mentoring others along the way.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with trust, safety, or identity verification systems.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog and data tools like SQL.
• Comfort collaborating beyond mobile (backend or data pipelines).
• Passion for developing and mentoring teammates, scaling impact through others.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• 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.

💛 EOE

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

Compensation Range: $190K - $260K