Senior Fullstack Engineer - China
full-time•Shanghai
Summary
About this role
🚀 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. 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.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.
And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.
💻 Role
We are recruiting for our Games & Buyer Ecosystem Team in China that can bring best practices and leverage their expertise here at Whatnot. We develop features for our US & Europe markets.
In this role, you will:
Design and develop end-to-end gamified mechanisms for our buyers to drive key business metrics such as purchases and engagement.
Build interactive challenges and reward systems across the buyer ecosystem (ex. Promotions, Task achievement systems, virtual point system) that guide users and encourage ongoing engagement.
Develop innovative systems and features for our mobile / web apps
Continuously analyze performance metrics and user feedback to refine product strategies, ensuring we deliver enjoyable experiences.
👋 You
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.
As our next Senior Fullstack Engineer, you should have 4+ years of development experience in mobile / web / backend service, plus:
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Proven track record of delivering user-facing features. You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast.
Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
Good written and verbal English communication skills without relying on translation apps
Bonus:
Experience building E-commerce products
Experience shipping end to end features including UI and service
💛 EOE
Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.
What you'll do
- Design and develop gamified mechanisms for buyers to drive purchases and engagement. Build interactive challenges and reward systems to encourage ongoing user engagement.
About Whatnot
AboutWhatnot is a community marketplace where you can safely buy, sell, go live and build a community with other like-minded people. We got our start offering a buying and selling experience to collectors of Funko Pops and Pokemon cards. We became the leading marketplace for those communities and have found success launching into categories like sports cards, NFTs, and vintage fashion. In July of 2022, we raised $260 million in a Series D funding round bringing our valuation to $3.7 billion, a 2.5x increase since our $1.5 billion valuation in September of 2021. Our mission is to enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We enable anyone to connect, transact and build a business in one place -- Whatnot is bringing the in-person retail experience online.Tech InfrastructureAWS, Kubernetes, ServerlessDatabasesPostgres, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, RedisBackendPython (Flask), Node, ElixirFront-EndReact, GraphQL, Swift, Kotlin
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