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Data Engineer, Finance

Whatnot, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079

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$180,000.00/yr - $260,000.00/yr 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. Were re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, were inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, were building the future of online marketplacestogether.

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 were just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, were 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

Data is a crucial part of Whatnots mission to bring people together through commerce. As our newest

Data Engineer, Finance , you will partner with engineering, finance, accounting, and product teams to design scalable solutions that turn payments data into high-leverage products. You will extend our data architecture, unlock critical new use-cases, and drive end-to-end initiatives that keep our revenue data accurate, timely, and traceable.

You will

Own architecture & execution. Make foundational decisions about how we capture, model, and serve financial dataand then ship the code to make it real. Build mission-critical pipelines. Maintain streaming and batch workflows that process transaction, settlement, refund, and chargeback events with tight SLOs for latency and accuracy. Deliver finance-grade data products. Create canonical financial models that power seller statements, 1099/1099-K tax reporting, revenue recognition, and SEC/SOX compliance. Raise the bar on data quality. Design tests, lineage, and monitoring so stakeholders can trust every penny and every query. Automate reconciliations. Partner with Finance to reconcile ledgers across payment processors, banks, and the general ledger. Unlock insights. Work with analytics, ML, and product teams to enable real-time dashboards, risk scoring models, and business metrics.

US Based

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Seattle hubs.

You

Weve Learned That Low Ego, a Growth Mindset, And a Bias Toward Action Create Outsized Impact At Whatnot. Youll Thrive Here If You

Have 3+ years of experience as a data or software engineer working with high-volume payments or fintech data. Turn complex financial datasets into reliable, documented, discoverable data products. Understand data modeling techniques (Data Vault, Kimball, dimensional, double-entry ledger) and apply the right one for the job. Bring hands-on expertise with modern data toolingingestion, testing, transformation, orchestration, lineage, and semantic layers. Have managed and optimized cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift for finance-grade workloads. Enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners and can translate technical constraints into business value. Thrive as a self-starter in a fast-moving environment and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

If building the data backbone that powers payouts, revenue recognition, and our path to IPO excites you, wed love to meet you.

Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary)

US based applicants:

$180.000/year to $260,000/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 (more details below) or equity.

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 for wellness 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 All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!). 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.

Compensation Range: $180K - $260K

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