Senior Software Engineer, Payments

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

The payments team owns critical product surfaces that enable global payments for merchants on our platform. 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 3 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 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

• $250,000K+ and a competitive equity package

• Unlimited PTO, with full health, vision, dental coverage

• Free access to Equinoxe

• Lunch & dinner paid for Monday thru Friday

• The latest MacBook Pro & tech accessories