Forward Deployed Engineer, Platforms (US)

Description

The Mission

Our mission is to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Right now 50,000 users make money on Whop every month, and this year users will earn over $5B. We will not stop until 1B people every month are making money on Whop.

Who We're Hiring

When sales closes a platform or marketplace deal that needs payments moved onto Whop, you take it off the AE and drive the integration to done. You sit between the customer and product. The custom work is yours, not core eng's.

What the job actually is:

You run every integration like a project. Status, next step, and timeline are always clear, written down, and current.

You get into the customer's codebase, do what it legitimately takes to ship, and get out. You are not there to live in their repo or become their engineer.

You are comfortable when the product or the API has a hole. If we don't have something, you break the gap down and fill it in a way that works for every customer after this one, not a one-off.

You answer fast. A real reply in about 30 seconds is the standard, not a stretch goal.

You are a top-class engineer. You can read their code, sit with their eng team, and ship without a translator.

Backgrounds that fit:

Founder / ex-founder who built and integrated payments or marketplace infra themselves (or made 7 figures shipping product), OR

Customer-facing engineer (FDE, Solutions Eng, Founding Eng) with years shipping with customers — API/automation/integrations fluent, OR

Technical operator who can write code, live in Cursor/Claude, and sit with platform eng teams without a translator

If you only want to write tickets for someone else to build, this isn't your role.How We Work

Our culture is built on the premise that people should be given budget to take large bets, have full agency, and move fast as fck. Today there are 100 people full time at Whop — 75% ex-founders.

If you're an end-to-end individual that wants full ownership — this is the place to be.

What We Care About

We don't believe in traditional JDs. The most successful people at Whop have all come from extremely unconventional backgrounds, and all we care about is working with the most talented individuals who want to win.

Given the small size of our team, we pay best in class base with extremely competitive equity packages.

Benefits

• Equinox membership
• Lunch & dinner M–F
• Rent Stipend within 0.5 mile of the office
• Citi Bike
• Ubers home after 10pm
• Unlimited PTO + health / vision / dental
• Latest MacBook Pro
• The Bar
• We want to work with people who want to be the best in the world. If that's not you, don't apply.