About Whop
At Whop, we’re building a farmers market for the internet where people can set up storefronts, accept payments, find customers, and connect with customers . Our mission is to deliver everybody a sustainable income. We are bridging the gap between commerce and connection amidst an exploding internet economy.
We earn creators on our platform almost $1B / year with a team of about 70 people based in Brooklyn, NY.
What does the role look like?
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership as a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for one or more product areas - metrics, customer experience, and technical vision. In this role, you will drive impactful business outcomes by deeply understanding customer needs, setting clear priorities for maximum impact, collaborating with designers on solution ideation, and implementing experiments through hands-on coding.
You’ll take on our most challenging, impactful projects, such as scaling notification and chat systems, and building low-latency applications such as live video streaming. You’ll also enhance performance and reliability across our systems, from public APIs and checkout to core web vitals. Collaboration with both engineering and non-engineering teams will be key. This role blends technical leadership with hands-on building.
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in either backend (e.g., Ruby on Rails) OR frontend technologies (e.g., React, Next.js).
- Excellent communication and project management skills
- Experience building beautiful products at a high velocity
Who you are:
- You ship fast and fix fast
- You are your own customer of the products you build
- Self starter with low ego
- Like building big features that customers use, not admin dashboards or button colors
PS: We love to work with people who are making money on Whop! Checkout whop before you apply!
Compensation, Benefits & Perks
- Target base salary of $230,000 - $300,000 + a competitive equity package.
- Unlimited PTO, with full health, vision, dental coverage
- A brand new office in Brooklyn, New York at the Domino Sugar Refinery
- 12k annual UberEats credits for lunch & dinner Monday thru Friday
- 9k annual rent subsidy if you live within 4 blocks of our 300 Kent office
- 3k ramp card to get you the latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories
- Free gym membership to the Equinox in our building & Annual Citi Bike Membership
Top Skills
What We Do
Whop is building a platform to service the internet economy. Millions of people are building new products that they are selling guerrilla style on social media and on forums throughout the internet. Whop gives these sellers a sleek storefront that can accept payments, seamlessly deliver digital products, and attract new customers visiting our marketplace. We currently handle almost $150M+ in yearly payments with thousands of active merchants.
To view our open roles, please visit https://careers.whop.com
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