Engineering Manager, Discovery & Search Platform - Remote

Overview

Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you.

In Short

• Lead and mentor a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Ensure engineers can work effectively and quickly.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Own the architecture and development of critical platform initiatives.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing team.
• Build a scalable platform for advanced discovery and search capabilities.
• Partner across machine learning, platform, and product engineering teams.
• Define and advance technical approaches to scalable recommendation systems.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in discovery or platform engineering leadership.
• Experience in building and scaling retrieval systems.
• Strong software engineering best practices.
• Proven experience delivering complex, large-scale systems.
• Focus on developer velocity and ergonomics.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
• Strong technical background for informed architecture decisions.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and services.
• Experience in machine learning fields.

Benefits

• Generous Holiday and Time off Policy.
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Work From Home Support.
• Care benefits including monthly wellness allowance.
• Retirement 401k offering with employer match.
• Monthly allowance for using the app.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.