Forward Deployed Engineer, Platforms (US)

Whop

• $125K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in payments or marketplace infrastructure
  • Experience as a founder or ex-founder in a related field
  • Proven track record as a customer-facing engineer with integration experience
  • Fluency in APIs, automation, and integrations
  • Strong coding skills and familiarity with tools like Cursor and Claude

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical integration of payments infra for new platform deals
  • Collaborate closely with customers to understand their needs
  • Build and maintain custom vertical integrations
  • Work directly with internal product and engineering teams
  • Ensure successful completion of integration projects

Benefits

  • Equinox membership
  • Daily lunch and dinner provided, Monday through Friday
  • Rent stipend for housing within 4 blocks of the office
  • Access to Citi Bike and Uber rides home after 10 PM
  • Unlimited PTO plus health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Latest MacBook Pro provided
Full Job Description
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. Location: In-person NYC / Brooklyn, 5 days in office. Perks: Equinox membership, lunch & dinner M-F, rent stipend within 4 blocks, Citi Bike, Ubers home after 10pm, unlimited PTO + health/vision/dental, latest MacBook Pro. The Bar We want to work with people who want to be the best in the world. If that's not you, don't apply.

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