Summer 2025 Software Engineer Intern

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy sell and discover the things you love. We’re building the future of ecommerce bringing together community shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values and as a remote co-located team we operate out of hubs within the US UK Ireland Poland and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions from fashion beauty electronics to collectibles like trading cards comic books and even live plants. Whatnot has something for everyone.

And we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

You will have the opportunity to shape the future of live shopping alongside our senior software engineers. Paired with a manager and a mentor you will lead mission critical projects that support our exponential growth and influence the long term evolution of Whatnot’s technology.

You will work in cross-functional multidisciplinary teams enabling you to directly impact the direction of our platform. Your design code and ideas will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges we face today and define future engineering initiatives.

Some sample projects you might work on are:

• Building out end to end features that support customers across the world in growing their business on Whatnot

• Work directly with senior leaders to unify internal reporting on business core metrics while we continue rapid growth

• Improve observability for other teams using our platform

• Refactor critical line of business systems to support continued growth in the user experience

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Dublin Ireland hub.

👋 You

• Previous Internship Experience or Teacher Assistant Experience

• Problem solver and out-of-the-box thinker

• Willing to take risks and build product and systems for 1M+ users

• Graduating in 2025 or 2026 with a CS or Software Engineering degree

💛 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.