Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Engineering

Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Engineering 🚀 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. 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. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values https://www.whatnot.com/careers 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. We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/ and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/ and engineering blogs https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. 💻 ROLE The Enterprising Engineering team, nested within our Seller Engineering org, supports the needs of our largest and most complex sellers. As sellers grow their businesses on Whatnot, their needs evolve—and this team builds the systems and tooling to support them at scale, including integrations with e-commerce platforms, WMS, ERPs, and accounting software. At its core, the team enables enterprise sellers to seamlessly onboard, operate, and scale on our platform. As the founding Solutions Engineer on the Enterprise team, your contributions will center around: - Delivering seamless, bi-directional data synchronization across marketplace, e-commerce, ERP, and other enterprise systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and low-latency data flow. - Partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders—including Product, Inventory, Operations, and external partners—to understand business needs, translate them into technical requirements, and drive aligned outcomes. - Architecting and evolving enterprise-grade systems that remain intuitive for developers, easy to iterate on, and capable of supporting rapid product growth. - Contributing to and accelerating the broader Inventory team roadmap, providing technical insight, proactive problem-solving, and hands-on implementation support. 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 Los Angeles or San Francisco hub. 👋 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 first Solutions Engineer on Enterprise, you should have 5+ years of solutions development experience in high growth startups, plus: - Experience building bespoke solutions on top of an existing internal framework. - Ability to work across the stack (backend and frontend). - Excellent product instincts. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution. - Ability to work with customers directly, both satiating customer expectations as well and ensuring internal company strategic standards and goals are met. - Strong written and oral communication skills. - Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate customer needs to engineering product teams. - Ability to take ownership of an ambiguous area and define and then drive impact. - Ability to flexibly work across multiple workstreams, thriving in a fast-paced environ ... (truncated, view full listing at source)