Hybrid Software Engineer, Payments

at Whatnot

• Job title: Software Engineer, Payments
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $170,000 - $290,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Elixir, JavaScript, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer enhancing payments infrastructure for Whatnot's global platform. Collaborating with senior leaders and driving impactful improvements across teams in payment systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with our partner team, Payments - Experience, and with other teams and senior leaders across Whatnot.
• Make a number of substantial improvements to critical infrastructure supporting payment scale & reliability, diversity of payment options, fraud mitigation, and improvements in transaction modelling and tax to further provide a seamless international marketplace.
• Manage individual responsibilities and advance an aspect of the domain as an expert in collaboration with the leadership team.
• Exercise good judgment and communicate effectively to drive impact in the organization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience building scalable systems that can handle millions of users
• Excellent product instincts. You first think about users and long term objectives when designing a technical solution.
• You have designed complex distributed systems that power products used by millions of users.
• You’re seasoned in defining the technical roadmap for team, identifying areas that need improvement and leading cross-team solutions.
• You can identify, architect, and build the right systems or products to improve the business.
• You deeply understand and can explain the various trade offs made in decisions.
• You enable collaboration across multiple teams to deliver on cross-team initiatives, while delegating ownership and uplifting those around you.
• You can mentor others, and prioritize building inclusive, supportive teams.
• You’re a project owner - you have strong ownership instincts and can own projects from inception to production to maintenance.
• You’re known for shipping high quality products and features quickly and iteratively towards the ultimate goal.
• You’re an excellent problem solver and don’t need to be told exactly what to do.
• You’re open to doing frontend work when required.
• Have the ability to quickly become effective in new technologies.
• Have experience working with payment systems, infrastructure, and international commerce (nice to have).
• Have startup experience at a high-growth company (nice to have).
• Knowledge of multiple programming languages (we primarily use Python, Elixir, JavaScript - direct experience is nice to have for a well balanced candidate).

Benefits

• 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 allownces run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence