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Forward Deployed Engineer, Platforms (US)

Whop · Brooklyn, NY · On-site

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About Whop

Whop is the place for business operators. Scale up customer acquisition and distribute your products with a few clicks. Spin up an empire in an afternoon. Backed by Insight.

About the role

When sales closes a platform / marketplace deal that needs payments infra moved to Whop, someone has to take it off the AE's plate and drive the technical integration to completion. That's you — embedded between customer and product, building custom vertical integrations that are not core eng's job. If you only want to write tickets for someone else to build, this isn't your role.

More about this role

Our mission is to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Right now 50,000 users make money on Whop every month, and this year users will earn over $5B. We will not stop until 1B people every month are making money on Whop.

When sales closes a platform / marketplace deal that needs payments infra moved to Whop, someone has to take it off the AE's plate and drive the technical integration to completion. That's you — embedded between customer and product, building custom vertical integrations that are not core eng's job.

This is not a President's Club AE bar. We hire cracked eng-operators who sit with customers:

Founder / ex-founder who built and integrated payments or marketplace infra themselves (or made 7 figures shipping product), OR

Customer-facing engineer (FDE, Solutions Eng, Founding Eng) with years shipping with customers — API/automation/integrations fluent, OR

Technical operator who can write code, live in Cursor/Claude, and sit with platform eng teams without a translator

If you only want to write tickets for someone else to build, this isn't your role.

Our culture is built on the premise that people should be given budget to take large bets, have full agency, and move...

Read the full posting on Whop's site ↗

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