Elixir Engineer

🚀 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

Elixir Engineers at Whatnot are key to enabling rapid product development and real-time features, ensuring our platform scales efficiently alongside our fast-growing business. To achieve our ambitious scaling goals, we are investing in world-class platform infrastructure, balancing speed of innovation with long-term stability.

We foster a collaborative culture, where the platform and product engineering teams work closely together to build resilient, high-performance systems. Our engineering team operates with high autonomy and responsibility, so we need trusted engineers who can translate platform strategy into scalable, maintainable system designs.

What you’ll do

• Develop and optimize Elixir applications for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Design and implement fault-tolerant, resilient infrastructure to support critical business features.
• Collaborate between infrastructure and product teams to build and enhance user-facing features.
• Improve observability through logging, tracing, and monitoring, ensuring system health.
• Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap, influencing key architectural decisions.

👋 About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of the BEAM VM, or the Elixir programming language and Open Telecom Platform.
• Experience building scalable, production-ready applications using Elixir and BEAM.
• Ability to understand business logic code quickly in a larger platform; Python experience preferred.
• Experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP).
• Ability to work across infrastructure and product teams, balancing technical excellence with business needs.
• Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re an excellent problem solver and a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction.
• Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
  
  • Monthly allowance on wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Pension plan
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 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.