Whatnot

Whatnot: Buy, Sell, Go Live

Software Engineer, Fraud

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2021H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 2 moreAll locations: California, New York, Washington

Posted

135 days ago

Salary

$180K - $260K / year

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishPython

Job Description

• Design and develop systems to protect the platform: Build and iterate on production algorithms and infrastructures that mitigate systemic risks and safeguard buyers, sellers, and the broader Whatnot community. • Balance risk and user experience: Proactively monitor the impact of protective systems on trusted users, ensuring interventions deliver more value than friction. • Respond in real time to threats: Architect event-driven pipelines and detection frameworks that enable near real-time responses to high-risk user behavior. • Contribute across the full development lifecycle: Engage in ideation, scoping, prototyping, load testing, deployment, and monitoring to deliver resilient and scalable solutions. • Drive cross-team initiatives: Collaborate across multiple product surfaces and operational teams, surfacing insights to leadership and stakeholders through dashboards, notebooks, and clear written documentation. • Continuously evolve defenses: Stay ahead of emerging abuse patterns, abuse vectors, and account integrity risks by iterating quickly and rigorously testing solutions.

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years of total software engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience building for consumer-scale loads.
  • 1+ years of experience writing production code in Python.
  • 1+ years of experience in Trust and Risk or Integrity or Fraud domains preferred.
  • Business intuition & a data-driven mindset that enables you to think critically about the growth headwinds abuse prevention systems can create. Explicit data science or machine-learning experience is a huge plus.
  • Obsession with impact. You are focused on driving value for users & have a track record of deploying simple solutions wherever feasible. You move as fast as possible without sacrificing quality.
  • Relentless & entrepreneurship. You prioritize your work ruthlessly & run through walls to get things done. Your curiosity drives you to dig into user problems & craft suggestions on how we can address them.
  • Ability to work autonomously and lead initiatives across multiple product areas and communicate findings with leadership and product teams.
  • Comfortability with data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Dagster.
  • Above average documentation and communication skills.

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
  • 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.

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