Elixir Engineer, Whatnot
Live stream platform & marketplace
Job no longer available
Live stream platform & marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Deep knowledge of the BEAM VM, or the Elixir programming language and Open Telecom Platform
- Experience building scalable, production-ready applications using Elixir and BEAM
- Ability to understand business logic code quickly in a larger platform; Python experience preferred
- Experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP)
- Ability to work across infrastructure and product teams, balancing technical excellence with business needs
- 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
- Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
What the job involves
- Elixir Engineers at Whatnot are key to enabling rapid product development and real-time features, ensuring our platform scales efficiently alongside our fast-growing business
- To achieve our ambitious scaling goals, we are investing in world-class platform infrastructure, balancing speed of innovation with long-term stability
- We foster a collaborative culture, where the platform and product engineering teams work closely together to build resilient, high-performance systems
- Our engineering team operates with high autonomy and responsibility, so we need trusted engineers who can translate platform strategy into scalable, maintainable system designs
- Develop and optimize Elixir applications for performance, reliability, and scalability
- Design and implement fault-tolerant, resilient infrastructure to support critical business features
- Collaborate between infrastructure and product teams to build and enhance user-facing features
- Improve observability through logging, tracing, and monitoring, ensuring system health
- Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap, influencing key architectural decisions
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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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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