Fullstack Tech Lead, Whym
Conversational commerce shopping
Job no longer available
Conversational commerce shopping
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the brand of consumer trust for social selling.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate has at least 2 years of experience as a Team Lead (or higher) with a team size of at least 3-6 and several more years of experience as an individual contributor.
- It would be preferable if you had pre-existing experience with as much of the following tech stack as possible:
Desirable
- Web front-end design (bring a portfolio)
- And/or Financial Technology Expertise (PCI, Accounting, Banking, Payments)
- And/or Messaging (SMS, Twilio, RCS, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc…)
- And/or Commerce Integrations (Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, etc…)
- And/or Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision
- And/or Volume Data Handling and Processing (Kafka, BigQuery, BigTable, PubSub)
What the job involves
- You’ll definitely be coding, architecting, reviewing, and leading a team.
- You’ll be directly communicating with our executives
- You will be breaking down largely ambiguous challenges and turning them into delivered software that has a high level of quality
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Ecommerce has a big abandoned carts issue; in part, it’s exacerbated by the broader issue being addressed by payments: how to sidestep the cumbersome process of plugging in card details when looking to make a purchase. These are two hot areas of focus for ecommerce tech, and Whym has developed a solution that solves for both.
Whym's brought to market a mobile app which works like a brand-agnostic shopping cart, centralizing all ‘save for later’ purchases that the user shoots over to the app from their online browsing. These items can then be bought through one-click purchasing via Apple Pay, Google Pay, or SMS.
The current issue is that this ‘shooting over’ can only take place if the brand has installed a Whym button at checkout, and for the moment Whym has only a couple dozen boutique companies on board. However, this should be enough to help Whym develop out the product into the rapidly evolving social commerce space - a savvy one to be getting in on early.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2021
$4.3m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$1.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $7m
Company values
- Create a world-class experience
- Challenge the norm
- Build groundbreaking new categories
- Have a great time doing it
Company HQ
El Segundo, CA
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Founders
Kelly Nyland
(CEO)Previously Director of Marketing and Communications at Parrot, who then served as SVP of Global GTM & Product at Sphero, and ultimately headed up GTM at Snap.
Rhenee Barttlett
(COO)Held various Senior roles in account management at Team Epic, Vivid Marketing, and IMG Live. Subsequently worked as an Events Director at Motive, then at Snap as the Head of Snapchat Spectacles Event Marketing and Partnerships.
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