Engineering Manager, Whatnot
Mobile
$280-330k
+ Equity
More information about location
Live stream platform & marketplace
Posted today
Live stream platform & marketplace
1001+ employees
Posted today
$280-330k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a leader who combines strong mobile technical instincts with organizational leadership, and who thrives in highly cross-functional environments
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience leading mobile teams (iOS, Android, or both)
- A strong technical foundation in mobile application architecture, performance optimization, and production reliability
- Deep familiarity with mobile observability and performance tooling, and a strong intuition for diagnosing real-world app issues
- Experience leading teams through ambiguous, high-impact initiatives that require cross-team coordination and influence
- A collaborative leadership style — comfortable driving decisions and navigating trade-offs
- Proven ability to scale teams, develop leaders, and create healthy, high-performing engineering cultures
- Comfort operating at both the strategic and tactical levels, with the judgment to know when to zoom in and when to step back
- Bonus: experience working closely with backend or platform teams, or contributing to backend systems directly earlier in your career
What the job involves
- As a senior leader within App Platform Engineering, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of Whatnot’s mobile experience
- You will lead teams responsible for the mobile foundations that power iOS and Android, partnering closely with product, design, infrastructure, and other platform teams to ensure our apps are fast, reliable, observable, and built to scale
- You will help set direction, build alignment, and raise the bar for mobile quality and performance across the company
- Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers, guiding them through complex Lead and mentor multiple mobile-focused engineering teams, supporting both iOS and Android development and fostering strong technical leadership across platforms
- Define and drive a long-term mobile platform strategy, balancing near-term delivery with foundational investments in performance, reliability, and developer experience
- Champion mobile performance and observability, ensuring teams deeply understand app health, user experience metrics, and production behavior at scale
- Partner closely with product, design, infrastructure, and data teams to ensure mobile architecture and execution align with broader company goals
- Drive clarity and alignment across teams by setting expectations, building buy-in, and navigating complex cross-functional tradeoffs
- Establish and evolve best practices around mobile architecture, testing, release quality, and technical debt management
- Support and grow senior ICs and managers, creating clear growth paths and a strong bench of mobile leadership
Our take
Live shopping is changing the way people engage with eCommerce and Whatnot is one of the key platforms driving this shift. The company operates across the US, UK, and Europe, where millions of people connect each day to buy, sell, and build communities around shared interests.
Founded in 2019, Whatnot allows real-time auctions where buyers can watch sellers showcase products and share their expertise, creating a more interactive and personal shopper experience. Sellers include individual creators and small businesses who use live shows to reach audiences and grow their online presence.
As of 2025, the company reports over $6B in sales, with sellers earning significantly more on average than other major marketplaces. And with a range of investor support, Whatnot is committed to developing new ways to make online shopping more social and community-driven.
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Meet the team
Jon Malkemus, VP Product Design
Insights
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2025
$225m
SERIES F
Jan 2025
$265m
SERIES E
Total funding: $974.2m
Company benefits
- Wellness: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans. We also cover some of the cost for your dependents as well.
- Compensation: Generous compensation, including a competitive base salary and equity. Whatnot offers monthly reimbursement for internet and phone costs, along with a one-time home office set-up allowance. Whatnot offers a pension plan and matches employee contributions of up to 4% of the employee’s base salary.
- Recharge: Whatnot gives you the freedom to take time off as you see fit. And, we take company-wide Winter and Summer breaks so we can recharge. Whatnot provides a monthly allowance for wellness expenses. We know that to take care of our customers, we have to take care of ourselves. Supplemental health and life insurance coverage comes standard at Whatnot. 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and an additional one-month gradual return-to-work period.* Plus an additional childcare allowance, and a lifetime allowance for family planning, including adoption and fertility expenses. *The leave allowances provided by Whatnot may be dictated / informed by your country’s legal requirements,
- Flexibility: 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.
Company values
- Always listen to customers
- Move uncomfortably fast
- Prioritize impact ruthlessly
- Own everything and nothing
- Set crazy goals
- Provide extreme transparency
- Optimize for the upside
- Team over ego
- Figure it out
- Deeply understand why
- Have fun & be kind
Company HQ
Venice, Los Angeles, CA
Articles
Leadership
Grant LaFontaine
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Product Marketing Manager at Google, Project Manager at Facebook. Also co-founded Kit.
Logan Head
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience in Engineering, including at Maker's Row, Factr, and Flight Club. Former Senior Product Manager at GOAT.
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