Soma Capital Portfolio Jobs

Staff Developer Experience Engineer

Whop

Whop

Software Engineering
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Posted on Nov 12, 2024

About Whop

At Whop, we’re building a farmers market for the internet where people can set up storefronts, accept payments, find customers, and connect with customers . Our mission is to deliver everybody a sustainable income. We are bridging the gap between commerce and connection amidst an exploding internet economy.

We earn creators on our platform almost $1B / year with a team of about 70 people based in Brooklyn, NY.

Who you are:

  • You ship fast and fix fast
  • You are your own customer of the products you build
  • Self starter with low ego
  • Like building big features that customers use, not admin dashboards or button colors
  • Experience using our tech stack (Swift, Kotlin, Next.js/React, or Ruby on Rails)
  • Strong CS fundamentals

What does the role look like?

As a Staff Developer Experience focused Software Engineer, your mission will be to increase the velocity of our core engineering team. You will work across all repos — Next.JS, Ruby on Rails, and Swift, to ensure consistency and ease of use around our component libraries, util functions, internal / external APIs, linters, and our local development environments.

30 / 60 / 90 Day Plan:

  • Within 30 days, our codebases will have linters setup, extremely clear readmes, a frictionless local development experience, and unified analytics tracking and standards.
  • Within 60 days, our frontend component library will be used consistently and our frontend team will have a plethora of components to draw from.
  • Within 90 days, you will have one other member of your team that you will hire to join your developer experience team.
  • Beyond: We will have well documented and highly intuitive public APIs, as well as a

Who you are:

  • You are incredibly organized
  • You are obsessed with naming conventions
  • You are uncomfortable when something is redundant
  • You are a self starter and know there is always something to do

Qualifications

  • Excellent communication and project management skills
  • Able to drive code-accountability throughout the broader engineering team

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

✅ Target base salary of $200,000 - $230,000 + a competitive equity package.
❤️ Unlimited PTO, with full health, vision, dental coverage
📍 A brand new office in Brooklyn, New York at the Domino Sugar Refinery
🍕 12k annual UberEats credits for lunch & dinner Monday thru Friday
🏠 9k annual rent subsidy if you live within 4 blocks of our 300 Kent office
💻 3k ramp card to get you the latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories
💪 Free gym membership to the Equinox in our building & Annual Citi Bike Membership