Forward Deployed Engineer, Platforms (US)

Mission

Our mission is to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Right now 25,000 business operators earn over $7B per year. We will not stop until 1B people every month are making money on Whop.

Role

When sales closes a platform or marketplace deal that needs payments on Whop, you take it from the AE and finish the integration. You sit between the customer and product and drive the technical work to done.

This is a highly entrepreneurial role with a lot of freedom. You own the integration end to end.

What You’ll Do

Run every integration as a project, with status, next step, and timeline written down and current

Get into the customer’s codebase, ship what it takes, and get out

When the product or API is missing something, break the gap down and fill it so the next customer can use it too

Reply fast. A real answer in about 30 seconds is the standard.

Work with the AE and account team so the customer goes live cleanly

What We’re Looking For

Founder or ex-founder who built and integrated payments or marketplace infra

FDE, solutions engineer, or founding engineer background shipping with customers

Top-class engineer, fluent in APIs, automation, and integrations

Works in Cursor and Claude and can sit with a platform eng team without a translator

Compensation / perks

Compensation range: $220,000 to $280,000

Best in class base + OTE with competitive equity

Location: In-person NYC / Brooklyn, 5 days in office

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