Engineering Manager, Whatnot

Data Infrastructure

$230-260k

+ Equity

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Terraform

Snowflake

DynamoDB

Senior and Expert level

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Live stream platform & marketplace for collectibles

Be an early applicant

Live stream platform & marketplace for collectibles

501-1000 employees

B2CMarketplaceToysSocialSocial MediaConsumer Goods

Be an early applicant

$230-260k

+ Equity

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Terraform

Snowflake

DynamoDB

Senior and Expert level

Los Angeles

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2CMarketplaceToysSocialSocial MediaConsumer Goods

Company mission

Whatnot missions is to enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Have hands-on experience with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP) using Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools like Terraform
Have previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re an excellent problem solver and a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction
Be a technical leader with hands-on experience in streaming (e.g. Kafka, Clickhouse), production data stores (e.g. Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis), or analytics systems (e.g. Snowflake, Iceberg) at scale
Have experience leading a team of engineers, guiding them through both their career development, and executing in a high growth environment
Be low ego, have an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources
Effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams
Effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity
Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

What the job involves

The Data Platforms team is builds scalable data movement, transformation, and retrieval platforms on Whatnot
As the Engineering Manager of the Data Infrastructure team, you’ll focus on developing, maintaining, and setting the vision for systems that enables Whatnot engineers to develop data-intensive product features at lightning speed, while unlocking cutting-edge production use cases, like real-time analytics, search, and AI
Hire and develop engineers across all platform applications and backend systems
Collaborate with product engineering, analytics, and infrastructure engineering counterparts to set strategic direction of the team, advocating for platform solutions that help us grow Whatnot as a whole
Plan and manage projects, coordinating and aligning your team‘s goals against others across the business

Our take

The collectible toy market is large, and Whatnot has built a unique social platform that enables sellers to use livestreams to showcase their products and reach more buyers. The company’s focus is on collectible toys, some of which are rare and can cost thousands of dollars, and has also expanded to sports cards.

The idea of Whatnot was led by buyer trends. Instagram's live feature became a popular place for selling toys and trading cards, but of course was not set up to facilitate bidding or handling payments after a sale occurs. Whatnot combines live showcasing with follow-up sale capabilities, thus serving the community in a more novel way than established collectibles market players such as eBay.

The company has grown fast. It was established in 2019 and has already expanded from its original category - Funko Pop figurines - to Pokemon cards, pins, sports cards, and many more. There is still plenty of scope for expanding into new categories, as the company aims to establish itself as the go-to for this large niche, which will be facilitated by the strong levels of funding that Whatnot has raised.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

54% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.9)

Trustpilot (4.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jan 2025

$265m

SERIES E

Jul 2022

$260m

SERIES D

Total funding: $749.2m

Company benefits

Wellness: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans. We also cover some of the cost for your dependents as well.
Compensation: Full-time Whatnauts receive equity, a WFH stipend to support your remote workspace and a monthly stipend to dogfood the app.
Recharge: Flexible Time Off policy, holiday week off at the end of year, and paid parental leave after 1 year with us.
Flexibility: Remote-first work culture. We provide a working environment where you're in charge of your time and schedule.

Company HQ

Marina del Rey, CA

Leadership

Grant LaFontaine

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Former Product Marketing Manager at Google, Project Manager at Facebook. Also co-founded Kit.

Logan Head

(Co-Founder)

Experience in Engineering, including at Maker's Row, Factr, and Flight Club. Former Senior Product Manager at GOAT.

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