About the role

Engineering Manager overseeing the Discovery Platform team at Whatnot. Leading the growth and evolution of their marketplace and platform for users.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers, guiding them through complex technical challenges and helping them achieve personal and professional growth.
Focus on ensuring engineers can work effectively and quickly, building within and leveraging platform services.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence product decisions and ensure engineering solutions meet both business and technical needs.
Own the architecture and development of critical platform initiatives that build and scale retrieval, ranking and search for dynamic feeds with low-latency requirements.
Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing team, fostering an inclusive team culture.
Build a scalable platform that provides ergonomic access to advanced discovery and search capabilities across the organization.
Partner closely across the machine learning, platform, and product engineering teams to accelerate Discovery capabilities to solve for Whatnot’s business needs.
Define and advance our technical approach to scalable recommendation systems.

10+ years of experience in discovery engineering or platform engineering leadership roles, with at least 1-2 years of experience managing teams.
Experience in building and scaling retrieval systems, real-time services, ranking and discovery systems.
Strong experience with software engineering best practices, focusing on maintaining high code quality, reducing technical debt, and improving performance at scale.
Proven experience in guiding teams to deliver complex, large-scale systems with an emphasis on reliability and scalability.
A focus on developer velocity and ergonomics, improving engineering practices to increase speed and quality of delivery while managing technical debt.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple teams.
Strong technical background, with the ability to make informed decisions on architecture and technology choices.
Experience with cloud computing platforms and managed services such as AWS Sagemaker, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, EC2, EKS/ECS, Kafka, Flink/Spark, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Lucene, SOLR.
Experience in machine learning fields (e.g. Recommendations, Content Understanding and Search.

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
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.