Android Engineer, Seller Growth

October 27

🏄 California – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $190k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤖 Android Engineer

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Whatnot

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Marketplace • eCommerce

Whatnot is a dynamic online marketplace platform that facilitates live shopping experiences. Users can buy, sell, and discover products they love, engaging in a community-driven environment through live shows. Whatnot ensures a secure shopping experience by vetting sellers and offering protection for unsatisfactory purchases. The company values privacy, providing consent management tools for their users to control cookie usage and personal data processing.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2021

🏪 Marketplace

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $260M Series D on 2022-07

📋 Description

• Develop high-quality Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose that enhance the seller onboarding, verification, and incentive journeys. • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend teams to define goals, scope, and technical trade-offs. • Partner with data science to design and interpret experiments that measure seller success and improve funnel efficiency. • Contribute to the evolution of shared mobile infrastructure and best practices across Whatnot’s engineering teams. • Uphold engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, and thoughtful discussions that raise the bar. • Responsible for deeply technical systems (IDV, fraud signal repositories, seller enrichment pipelines, predictive models) that directly influence GMV, seller retention, and buyer trust. • Ensure that Whatnot can confidently scale this influx without compromising marketplace integrity.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality Android applications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience • Android expertise in creating fluid, responsive user interfaces • Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Adept at reactive programming with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows • Fluent in MVI or MVVM development • Care deeply about product quality and performance, creating polished experiences that balance usability and trust • Thrive in cross-functional environments, partnering effectively with product, design, and backend peers • Are comfortable using data and experimentation (SQL, Snowflake, A/B testing) to guide decisions • Communicate clearly and drive alignment across teams in ambiguous, fast-changing environments • Have a growth mindset, taking ownership from concept to launch while mentoring others along the way • Bonus points for: Experience with trust, safety, or identity verification systems • Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog and data tools like SQL • Comfort collaborating beyond mobile (backend or data pipelines) • Passion for developing and mentoring teammates, scaling impact through others.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break) • 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 • Parental Leave • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work