Senior Frontend Engineer - China

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare 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

• Growth engineers at Whatnot are responsible for expanding our new user funnel across buyers and sellers to accelerate the rapid growth of our marketplace. We focus on the full funnel, developing opportunities to grow traffic across multiple channels while also creating delightful new user experiences to activate and retain buyers and sellers for the long term.
• In this role, you will build out our core Incentivized buyer growth strategy, including gamified incentives and offer experiences to continue to accelerate Whatnot’s rapid growth.
• Growth engineers at Whatnot have big ownership and velocity in order to significantly impact the company top-line metrics. We always prioritize the highest impact features and ship them quickly. You will have a lot of freedom to research and find new opportunities to drive the product direction.

👋 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 Frontend Engineer in Growth you should have 5+ years of software development experience, plus:

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Familiar with front-end frameworks, libraries and tools
• Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.
• Proven track record of delivering user-facing features. You are known for shipping products and features lightning-fast.
• Experience working across the stack is nice to have, but not required!
• Good communication skills in both written and verbal English
• Bonus: Experience building E-commerce products

💛 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.