Staff Software Engineer, Web

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Brooklyn, NY
Senior level
Software
The Role
The Staff Software Engineer will take ownership of product areas, drive impactful business outcomes, and enhance performance across systems. Responsibilities include collaborating with designers, hands-on coding, and managing challenging projects like scaling notification systems and building live streaming applications.
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About Whop

At Whop, our mission is to make everyone a lot of money. 

We’re building the most addicting mall on the internet; bridging the gap between connection, creation, and commerce. We firmly believe that money is freedom of time and we dream of a platform of one million millionaires. 

We are a team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs. Our creators earn almost $1B / year with a team of about 70 people based in Brooklyn, NY. 

This is the make money app. 

At Whop, you should aspire to be… 

  • the dumbest person in the room. 
  • comfortable being uncomfortable. 
  • utterly insane at what you do.

What does the role look like?

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll take ownership as a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for one or more product areas - metrics, customer experience, and technical vision. In this role, you will drive impactful business outcomes by deeply understanding customer needs, setting clear priorities for maximum impact, collaborating with designers on solution ideation, and implementing experiments through hands-on coding. 

You’ll take on our most challenging, impactful projects, such as scaling notification and chat systems, and building low-latency applications such as live video streaming. You’ll also enhance performance and reliability across our systems, from public APIs and checkout to core web vitals. Collaboration with both engineering and non-engineering teams will be key. This role blends technical leadership with hands-on building.

Qualifications

  • Strong proficiency in either backend (e.g., Ruby on Rails) OR frontend technologies (e.g., React, Next.js). 
  • Excellent communication and project management skills
  • Experience building beautiful products at a high velocity

Who you are:

  • You ship fast and fix fast
  • You are your own customer of the products you build
  • Self starter with low ego
  • Like building big features that customers use, not admin dashboards or button colors

PS: We love to work with people who are making money on Whop! Checkout whop before you apply!

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

  • Target base salary of $230,000 - $300,000 + a competitive equity package.
  • Unlimited PTO, with full health, vision, dental coverage
  • A brand new office in Brooklyn, New York at the Domino Sugar Refinery
  • 12k annual UberEats credits for lunch & dinner Monday thru Friday
  • 9k annual rent subsidy if you live within 4 blocks of our 300 Kent office
  • 3k ramp card to get you the latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories
  • Free gym membership to the Equinox in our building & Annual Citi Bike Membership

Top Skills

JavaScript
Ruby
The Company
Brooklyn, New York
63 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Whop is building a platform to service the internet economy. Millions of people are building new products that they are selling guerrilla style on social media and on forums throughout the internet. Whop gives these sellers a sleek storefront that can accept payments, seamlessly deliver digital products, and attract new customers visiting our marketplace. We currently handle almost $150M+ in yearly payments with thousands of active merchants.

To view our open roles, please visit https://careers.whop.com

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