Software Engineer, 2026 New Grad

We are looking for intellectually curious, highly motivated individuals to join us post grad in 2026. The most important skills you’ll need to have are making sound product decisions and shipping high-quality products fast. We look for engineers with great product instincts who can own whole projects from start to finish.

The engineering team operates with a high level of autonomy so we need to hire people we can trust. Your ability to make good trade-offs and exercise good judgment is essential to us. Some job duties include:

• Building new features for users in our live-streams
• Implementing growth tactics and strategies to scale our buyer and seller flows
• Building systems at scale that help us deliver a high trust marketplace experience
• Writing product or system development code
• Designing, implementing, and operating our most critical and scalable services
• Carefully evaluating the technical tradeoffs of every decision
• Supporting features at every phase, from design through implementation and launch
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues, network, or service operations and quality.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle hubs.

 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Engineer you should have some industry software engineering experience, plus:

• Graduating with a CS or Software Engineering degree in Dec 2025 or by Summer 2026
• Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker
• Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users
• Capable of building scalable systems
• Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution
• You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast
• Ability to pick up on new technologies very quickly
• Open to relocation to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle