Developer Experience Engineer

About Whop

Whop is a financial technology company on a mission to provide the world with sustainable income. Our vision is to create the world’s largest internet market, where people can create, connect, and transact all from a single platform. Whop enables individuals and businesses to accept payments, launch ventures, and engage with others across the network. 

Today, Whop facilitates over $3 billion in annual payouts to people in 144 countries. Growth continues to accelerate, with gross transaction volume increasing roughly 25% month over month. 

Whop has raised hundreds of millions from institutional investors like Insight, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, and Peter Thiel — including a recent strategic investment from Tether, the largest stablecoin company in the world.

Our current team is made up of young, passionate entrepreneurs who grew up on the internet — over 75% built a business before joining Whop, including 53 former founders and 30 who scaled past $1M in revenue. Product leadership includes backgrounds from Meta and Robinhood.

For more information, visit whop.com.

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