Android Engineer App Platm

Role

As an Android engineer on this team, you'll contribute to core mobile infrastructure with a focus on stability, performance, and observability across the entire app surface. This includes building and maintaining frameworks that make the mobile apps resilient, fast, and deeply measurable—so that teams across the company can deliver world‑class experiences.

You'll help scale and refine the Android stack, design tools and patterns that enable developer velocity, and lead efforts to ensure that every session, stream, and tap is monitored and understood. From low‑level crash segmentation to high‑level stream health diagnostics, you'll be part of the team that defines what excellence looks like on the application.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London or Krakow hub.

• 3+ years of full‑time software engineering experience in high growth startups, or equivalent
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Android expertise in creating fluid, responsive user interfaces
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
• Adept at reactive programming with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows
• Fluent in MVI or MVVM development
• Product Instinct:
  Excel at translating user needs to effective technical solutions
• Problem Solving:
  Thrive in ambiguity and tackle challenging problems with creativity and autonomy
• Team Leadership:
  Proactively improve the team environment and foster inclusive, supportive team culture
• Ownership Mindset:
  Own projects holistically from inception to production and beyond, known for shipping high‑quality products and features lightning‑fast

Full‑time (Salary) US‑based applicants: $165,000/year to $216,000/year + benefits + equity. The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits or equity.

• 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 wellness allowance
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work. Company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

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.

All employees are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We are passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use the platform as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job.