Developer Experience Engineer

About Whop

Whop is the platform powering the next generation of online business. We provide entrepreneurs with everything they need to launch, grow, and monetize digital products: global payment infrastructure, flexible storefronts, community engagement tools, and marketplace distribution.

We've paid out over $2.5 billion to thousands of businesses and built a user base of more than 15 million.

Whop has raised nearly $80 million from world-class investors including Bain Capital, Insight Partners, Peter Thiel, Justin Kan (Twitch), Justin Mateen (Tinder), the Chainsmokers, and others. Our team includes talented leaders from top fintech and technology companies like Meta, Robinhood, and Quora, as well as many experienced founders.

About the role

As a developer experience engineer, you'll work on projects that impact the velocity of the engineering team. You'll make our development process faster, more reliable, eliminate tech debt, and improve our tooling. We need someone who wakes up thinking about how to make every engineer here 10x more effective.

What you'll do

• Build tooling to rapidly launch local and remote development environments
• Speed up and maintain our CICD systems
• Develop tooling that enables gradual rollouts and instant rollbacks
• Build out agentic engineering systems that speed up development
• Create reliable staging/test environments
• Work with product teams to ensure seamless testing/debugging
• Hunt down tech debt and generally find ways to speed up the engineering team

What you need

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a software development role
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with imperfect information
• Curiosity and drive to continuously seek ways to make the product better
• Ability to ship fast, reliable software with a high attention to detail
• Experience with databases, backend systems, and automation tooling

Nice to have

• You've built and maintained secure, public SDKs
• Deep experience with auth, secrets, webhooks, and event-driven software
• You obsess over the best developer experience
• Experience integrating LLMs into automated workflows

Benefits Overview

• Minimum cash comp of $250,000K + a competitive equity package
• Unlimited PTO, with full health, vision, dental coverage
• Free access to Equinox
• $9k annual rent stipend if you live within 4 blocks of the Brooklyn office
• Lunch & dinner paid for Monday thru Friday
• The latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories