Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Posted:
2/25/2026, 5:46:20 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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 you:

You are a person who craves impact. You want to leave a (big) dent on the world. You are generally disappointed in the bar held by most people everyday. You feel smarter than everyone around you, yet that doesn’t make you happy – it makes you sad that you aren’t being pushed to think hard enough. You drive towards simplicity and expect others to do the same.

What does the role look like?

The customer you are building for should be thought of as other client-side developers on our team consuming our API.

  • Build beautiful, fast, polished APIs across the Whop backend
  • Create primitive APIs that are used by internal and external developers
  • Create patterns, prompts, and internal tools to create leverage for other developers on the team
  • Work closely with founders and designers to turn vision into clean architected systems
  • Prototype quickly, ship fast, and care about the details
  • Write clean queries, intuitive function names, and easy to understand responses
  • Delete shit that is outdated and no longer used
  • Come up with reusable architecture patterns that can make us move faster later

Benefits Overview

✅ Minimum cash comp of $300,000K + a competitive equity package

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

🍕 Lunch & dinner paid for Monday thru Friday

💻 3k ramp card to get you the latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories

This role is a Staff Software Engineer who will report to the CTO.