Customer Success Engineer, Enterprise Engineering

Whatnot; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time off Policy

Health Insurance options

Work From Home Support

Retirement 401k offering

16 weeks of paid parental leave

Job summary

A leading livestream shopping platform is seeking a founding Solutions Engineer on the Enterprise team in Los Angeles. The role involves delivering seamless data synchronization across marketplace systems and collaborating with various stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of solutions development experience in high-growth startups and strong communication skills. The position allows flexibility with remote work options and offers a competitive salary range of $170K - $190K.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of solutions development experience in high-growth startups.
• Ability to work across the stack (backend and frontend).
• Experience working directly with customers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver seamless, bi-directional data synchronization.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business needs.
• Architect and evolve enterprise-grade systems.

Skills

Solutions development experience

Excellent product instincts

Communication skills

Experience with e-commerce SaaS products

Tools

Shopify

Magento

Channel Advisor

Job description

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, empowering sellers across a spectrum of categories from trading cards to live plants. We build live commerce at a scale never seen in the West.

Role

As the founding Solutions Engineer on the Enterprise team, your contributions will center around:

• Delivering seamless, bi‑directional data synchronization across marketplace, e‑commerce, ERP, and other enterprise systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and low‑latency data flow.
• Partnering closely with cross‑functional stakeholders—including Product, Inventory, Operations, and external partners—to understand business needs, translate them into technical requirements, and drive aligned outcomes.
• Architecting and evolving enterprise‑grade systems that remain intuitive for developers, easy to iterate on, and capable of supporting rapid product growth.
• Contributing to and accelerating the broader Inventory team roadmap, providing technical insight, proactive problem‑solving, and hands‑on implementation support.

Qualifications

We look for a candidate with 5+ years of solutions development experience in high‑growth startups, plus:

• Experience building bespoke solutions on top of an existing internal framework.
• Ability to work across the stack (backend and frontend).
• Excellent product instincts; user‑first thinking.
• Experience working with customers directly, meeting expectations and aligning with company strategic goals.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate customer needs to engineering product teams.
• Ability to take ownership of an ambiguous area and drive impact.
• Ability to flexibly work across multiple workstreams in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience with Shopify, Channel Advisor, Magento, and other e‑commerce SaaS products is a plus.

Location & Availability

Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our Los Angeles or San Francisco hub. We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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

$170K - $190K