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Technologies
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Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

How Whatnot hires

Truth index
C 68/100
Ghost roles
53%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Whatnot scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 95 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 53% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 48 · green card filings: 8

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Overview

Whatnot is a US live shopping marketplace headquartered in San Francisco where sellers host livestreams to sell trading cards, collectibles, fashion, electronics, live plants and many other categories. Founded in 2019 and backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator and CapitalG, it operates in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan with teams in New York, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Berlin, Krakow, Sydney and Tokyo. It hires software and application security engineers, product designers, sales managers for international markets, recruiters, communications managers and finance and tax staff.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Whatnot over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
36
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python27%
SQL13%
Kotlin7%
Elixir7%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster13%
Flink13%
Jetpack Compose7%
Databases
Amazon Redshift13%
Google BigQuery13%
Snowflake13%
Cloud & platforms
AWS13%
GitHub13%
Okta13%
Apache Kafka13%
AI & ML
LLM7%
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Full Whatnot tech stack 36 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$188k
Typical range
$48k – $395k
Open positions
68
45 Jobs
Junior 11.1%
Middle 11.1%
Senior 40%
Staff 31.1%
Architect 6.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $140k $48k – $160k
Middle 5 $165k $140k – $230k
Senior 18 $203k $121k – $290k
Staff 14 $247k $78k – $330k
Architect 3 $365k $335k – $395k
Highest paying role Head of Tax & Treasury $395k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Whatnot By role, level and city, against the market · 68 jobs with pay

People

Logan Head
Executive Officer, Director
Grant LaFontaine
Executive Officer, Director
Anu Hariharan
Director
Connie Chan
Director
Laela Sturdy
Director
Dalton Caldwell
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
95
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
74 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
21% ▼
Marketing
15% ▼
Management
13% ▲
Sales
13% ▲
HR
8% ▲
Security
6%
Actively hiring for HR (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Data Vault to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack Aug 2026
New location: New York Aug 2026
Added SQL to stack Jul 2026
Added Spark to stack Jul 2026
Added Great Expectations to stack Jul 2026
Added dbt to stack Jul 2026
Added TypeScript to stack Jul 2026
Added JavaScript to stack Jul 2026
Added Elixir to stack Jul 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
12
Countries
8
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
29 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 34% remote 500-1000 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Product
seen since May 2026 job postings
New York United States
Sales office
14 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 7% engineering 43% remote 200-500 est. staff $162k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales, Finance
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
12 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 8% remote 200-500 est. staff $166k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Management, Sales
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Los Angeles United States
Corporate office
8 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 38% remote 200-500 est. staff $195k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Security, Management
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Dublin Ireland
Regional office
7 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 14% remote 50-200 est. staff $104k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success, Management, Backend
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Phoenix United States
Sales office
6 open roles 67% remote 50-200 est. staff $100k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success, Finance, Management
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Sydney Australia
Sales office
5 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 20% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Communications, Marketing
seen since May 2026 job postings
Tokyo Japan
Support & operations
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 75% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Backend, Customer Success
seen since May 2026 job postings
Berlin Germany
Sales office
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $139k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales
seen since May 2026 job postings
Kraków Poland
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 67% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Security
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Shanghai China
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Mobile
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Melbourne Australia
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Jul 2026 job postings

Jobs

$194k – $215k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$280k – $330k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Seattle
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$200k – $260k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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≈ $51k – $100k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Poland) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Kraków
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$190k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Machine Learning
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$170k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
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$250k – $350k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$170k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
Modularization
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$207k – $230k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Machine Learning
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$207k – $290k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$153k – $235k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$190k – $260k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
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Financials

Total raised
$1.3B
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $545M $20B Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $262M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $260M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $141.1M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $47M — Details