{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5d7f00b09798668e8a3086f3","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5d7f00b09798668e8a3086f3","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5d7f00b09798668e8a3086f3","title":"Software Engineer, Logistics Platform","description":"Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!\n\nWhatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.\n\nAs a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.\n\nWe're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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.\n\nRole\n\nShipping is one of the most operationally complex and business-critical parts of Whatnot. It directly shapes buyer trust, seller confidence, CX burden, trust and enforcement decisions, and shipping economics.\n\nThe Logistics Platform team builds the shared systems, data, and capabilities beneath shipping on Whatnot. That includes core logistics data, tracking and scan normalization, platform interfaces, and the observability and investigation surfaces that other teams rely on.\n\nWe’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Logistics Platform to help make those systems more trustworthy, operable, and easy to build on. This is a product-minded platform role: much of the work is internal-facing, but the impact is very external — better buyer and seller experience, fewer support issues, stronger trust decisions, and better margin outcomes.\n\nAs a Software Engineer on Logistics Platform, you will:\n\nBuild and improve source-of-truth systems, APIs, and internal platform interfaces that other teams depend on for logistics workflows and decisions.\n\nOwn backend and platform work across logistics data quality, shipment state normalization, observability, and operational debugging surfaces.\n\nPartner closely with Product, Data Science, CX, Ops, Trust, and Finance to turn messy real-world logistics problems into durable systems and better user outcomes.\n\nImprove the correctness, timeliness, and usability of the logistics data that powers support, trust, product, and operational workflows.\n\nBuild tooling, monitoring, and debugging primitives that help teams detect problems earlier and get to truth faster.\n\nUse AI thoughtfully in day-to-day engineering work to improve quality, learning speed, debugging, and execution — while keeping a strong independent bar for correctness and risk judgment.\n\nWe offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our Los Angeles hub.\n\nYou\n\nPeople who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.\n\nWe’re especially excited about candidates who have:\n\nExperience building and owning meaningful backend or platform systems in production at the senior scope — i.e. developing and owning moderate-to-complex software, disambiguating meaningful problems, and collaborating effectively with stakeholders and cross-functional partners.\n\nStrong product judgment and the ability to connect technical work to user impact, business outcomes, and explicit trade-offs.\n\nExperience in complex marketplace, coordination, delivery, fulfillment, trust, or post-purchase systems where software decisions interact with messy real-world state.\n\nStrong instincts around data quality, source-of-truth systems, observability, and operational debugging.\n\nA thoughtful approach to AI: not just using AI for more output, but using it to improve the quality of engineering work while knowing where verification and independent judgment still matter.\n\nComfort operating in fast-moving, high-ownership environments with ambiguity and shifting priorities.\n\nNice to have:\n\nExperience in adjacent domains like rideshare coordination, food delivery, marketplace fulfillment, trust/risk operations, or order tracking and exception-handling systems.\n\nExperience working on a marketplace or other two-sided platform.\n\nDirect experience in logistics, shipping, or fulfillment systems.\n\nBenefits\n\nFlexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)\n\nHealth Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision\n\nWork From Home Support\n\nHome office setup allowance\n\nMonthly allowance for cell phone and internet\n\nCare benefits\n\nMonthly allowance for wellness\n\nAnnual allowance towards Childcare\n\nLifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses\n\nRetirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally\n\nMonthly allowance to dogfood the app\n\nAll 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!).\n\nParental Leave\n\n16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.\n\nPlease note: Whatnot will only contact you through official @whatnot.com email addresses. If you see an email impersonating a Whatnot recruiter, please disregard and report it as spam.\n\nEOE\n\nWhatnot 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. 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