Technical Recruiter
WhatnotNew York, NYPosted 9 March 2026
Tech Stack
Job Description
Technical Recruiter
🚀 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 https://www.whatnot.com/careers. With hubs in the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Australia, 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 https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/ and engineering https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.
💻 ROLE
We’re looking to hire a Technical Recruiter to manage end-to-end recruiting for our Infrastructure, Platform and Gen SWE teams. You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Lead hiring for our core engineering teams. You'll partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders, bringing a consultative approach to influence hiring decisions, shape strategies, and align recruiting priorities with broader business goals.
- Source strong engineering talent. You’ll experiment and partner with hiring managers to reach top candidates and explore creative channels beyond LinkedIn.
- Act as a full-cycle recruiter from sourcing, screening, managing the candidate through interviews, and closing.
- Juggle a variety of roles at once. At any given time you could be managing the pipelines for and working on filling 5-10 (or more at times) open roles of varying complexity and seniority.
- Assist with developing job posts, hiring plans, and rubrics. You'll work with the hiring manager to tighten up job descriptions, screening rubrics, and guide the hiring process along the way.
- Iterate on candidate feedback. You'll smooth rough edges in the recruiting process by iterating on feedback from candidates or other signals.
- Uplevel the recruiting team. You'll mentor peers, share best practices, and help build a culture of continuous improvement that raises the bar for recruiting excellence across the organization.
- Build scalable processes. You'll work on improving and standardizing recruiting workflows that can scale with the company’s growth, creating repeatable and effective practices that can be applied across the business.
- Emphasize diversity. You'll look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices.
We 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 New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle hub.
👋 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 Technical Recruiter you should have 7+ years of engineering and/or infrastructure recruiting with a deep network and experience in high-growth startups or fast-paced companies of scale, plus:
- You have a track record of filling Infrastructure roles across multiple levels. You enjoy the challenge of finding world-class talent for hard-to-fill roles.
- You're comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter. You're able to manage the entire process of a candidate end to end.
- You act as a true strategic partner to hiring managers, building close relationships and providing exper ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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