Engineering Manager, Seller Scaling

Whatnot; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 215,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company redefining e-commerce as an Engineering Manager for the Seller Scaling team. This role empowers top sellers to grow their businesses through strategic leadership and technical guidance. You will collaborate closely with product and design teams, leveraging your strong engineering judgment to deliver impactful solutions. With a focus on community and creativity, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of online marketplaces. If you are a bold problem solver with a passion for technology and team development, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Flexible Time Off Policy

Health Insurance Options

Work From Home Support

Childcare Allowance

Parental Leave

401k with Employer Match

Home Office Setup Allowance

Monthly Wellness Allowance

Dogfood App Allowance

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems and user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy and drive execution for the Seller Scaling team.
• Partner with product and design to solve complex problems.

Skills

Team Leadership

Technical Judgment

Stakeholder Management

Recruitment and Mentorship

Distributed Systems

User Experience Design

Product Metrics Instrumentation

Job description

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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 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare 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 Scaling team at Whatnot is responsible for building tools and experiences that empower our top GMV-generating sellers to grow and scale their businesses. In this role, you’ll help shape strategy, drive execution, and partner closely with product and design to solve complex, high-leverage problems. We're looking for a leader with strong product instincts, who can clearly articulate what needs to be built — and isn’t afraid to step into a PM mindset when needed. This will be a highly technical role, requiring strong engineering judgment to guide the team and ensure they have the skills and direction needed to shape and deliver the right solutions.

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

You

In addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates should also:

• Have experience leading a team of engineers to deliver significant business impact while guiding them through both their career development and executing in a high-growth environment.
• Have low ego, an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources.
• Know how to effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams.
• Operate as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces across web and mobile.
• Have great taste in building user experiences and the systems behind them, understand how form follows function, and effectively direct teams to build in this manner.
• Be comfortable with technical debt and how to leverage it.
• Understand how to instrument product metrics, recognizing the value and limits of data.
• Effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity.
• Have substantial hands-on experience of doing the job you’ll be managing.
  
  

Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $215,000/year to $245,000/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

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
• 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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