Remote Senior Software Engineer - Logistics Platform

Precision Labs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time off

Health Insurance options

Work From Home Support

Home office setup allowance

Monthly internet/cell phone allowance

Wellness allowance

Childcare allowance

Family planning support

401k with employer match up to 4%

Dogfood budget

Parental Leave

Job summary

Whatnot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Logistics Platform to help make those systems trustworthy and easy to build on. This role is product-minded, mainly internal but with external impact—improving buyer/seller experience and margin.

You will build source-of-truth systems, APIs, and interfaces, own data quality, shipment state normalization, observability, and debugging surfaces. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, CX, Ops, Trust, and Finance to turn messy logistics problems into

Qualifications

• Experience building and owning meaningful backend or platform systems in production at senior scope.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect technical work to user impact and business outcomes.
• Experience in complex marketplace, coordination, delivery, fulfillment, trust, or post-purchase systems where software decisions interact with messy real-world state.
• Strong instincts around data quality, source-of-truth systems, observability, and operational debugging.
• A thoughtful approach to AI: using it to improve the quality of engineering work with verification and judgment.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, high-ownership environments with ambiguity and shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve source-of-truth systems, APIs, and internal platform interfaces used by logistics workflows.
• Own backend and platform work across data quality, shipment state normalization, observability, and debugging surfaces.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, CX, Ops, Trust, and Finance to turn messy logistics problems into durable systems and better user outcomes.
• Improve the correctness, timeliness, and usability of logistics data powering support and operations.
• Build tooling, monitoring, and debugging primitives to detect problems earlier and reach truth faster.
• Use AI thoughtfully in day-to-day engineering to improve quality while maintaining independence and risk judgment.

Skills

Backend systems

Platform ownership

Product judgment

Marketplace experience

Data quality

Observability

Operational debugging

AI in engineering

Fast-paced environment

Job description

Whatnot is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Logistics Platform to help make those systems trustworthy and easy to build on. This role is product-minded, mainly internal but with external impact—improving buyer/seller experience and margin.

You will build source-of-truth systems, APIs, and interfaces, own data quality, shipment state normalization, observability, and debugging surfaces. Collaborate with Product, Data Science, CX, Ops, Trust, and Finance to turn messy logistics problems into