Full Stack Engineer, Payments

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 have more than 15 million users.

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

The payments team owns critical product surfaces that enable global payments for creators. As a payments engineer, you will build systems that run high volume checkout flows and support businesses getting paid. That includes capturing payments, verifying identity, managing balances, and transferring money with strong performance and security. We take reliability and trust seriously.

What you'll do

• Improve and optimize payments surfaces processing billions of transaction volume
• Build payments features and components that allow developers to easily integrate into our platform
• Increase our payments reach enabling more payment methods for creators
• Write world-class developer docs and interactive playgrounds for developers using our SDKs and components
• Build clean interfaces and APIs for frictionless payments operations
• Experiment with ways to make payments easier and more accessible

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 Next.js and modern frontend best practices
• Excellent communication skills 

Nice-to-haves

• Startup experience or experience as a technical founder
• You have a designers eye and notice when spacing is off or when flows could be simpler
• Have built SDK components that lived inside other people's products
• Comfortable with financial systems and know how money moves
• Experience with Ruby on Rails

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