Leverage Engineer

Posted:
1/29/2026, 2:54:55 AM

Location(s):
New York, New York, United States β‹… New York, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior β‹… Mid Level β‹… Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

About Whop

Our mission is to deliver everyone a sustainable income. We've paid out over $2B to online business owners and we're growing fast. Our engineering team is small, but we are running some of the most critical payment rails on the internet. We ship fast and own what we build.

About the role

Speed is our edge. But as team size grows, friction creeps in: slower CI, flaky tests, duplicated patterns, tribal knowledge that never gets written down, tooling that stops working. Left alone, small taxes compound into serious drag. 

We need someone who wakes up thinking about how to make every engineer here 10x more effective.

What you'll do:

  • Make CI/CD fast and boring. Shave time off builds, kill flaky tests, make shipping easy
  • Hunt down tech debt and build abstractions around duplicated code.
  • Measure what matters by improving our observability and monitoring. Build times, deploy frequency, time-to-first-commit. Know if we're getting faster or slower.
  • Unblock people. Jump into unfamiliar code, debug gnarly issues, get teammates back to their actual work.
  • Automate the tedious. Find manual processes that shouldn't be.
  • Spread good patterns. Make sure useful things travel faster than bad habits.
  • Ship full stack code across our Next.js frontend and Ruby on Rails backend.

You'll thrive here if you

  • Can't watch someone do something the slow way.
  • Are a generalist who goes deep when needed. Whatever the problem requires.
  • Have built internal tools engineers actually wanted to use.
  • Know the best infrastructure is invisible.
  • Question defaults. "That's how we do it" isn't a reason.
  • Move fast. Ship today, improve tomorrow.
  • Track the latest tools and help our team use them to move faster
  • Take ownership beyond your lane.

Why now

We're scaling fast. Every week we don't invest in leverage is a week we accumulate drag.

The systems you build won't just make your life easier, they'll make the entire team faster. This  means more creators building sustainable businesses on our platform.

If you've ever thought "I wish someone would just fix the build system" or "why does everyone keep reinventing this wheel"β€”come be that someone.

 

Benefits Overview

βœ… Minimum cash comp of $250,000K + a competitive equity package

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

πŸ’ͺ Free access to Equinox

🏠 $9k annual rent stipend if you live near the office

πŸ• Lunch & dinner paid for Monday thru Friday

πŸ’» 3k ramp card to get you the latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories