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title: 'Data Engineer, Strategic Finance at Whop'
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# Data Engineer, Strategic Finance at Whop

- **Company:** Whop
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://careers.whop.com/?gh_jid=5179276007

## Job description

## 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, people on Whop earn ~$4 billion annually across 145 countries. For more information, visit [whop.com](http://whop.com).

## About the Role

We're hiring our first dedicated Data Engineer inside Strategic Finance, and the job is simple to state and hard to do well: make everyone at Whop smarter with the insights hidden in our data, and change how the company makes decisions.

Whop generates an enormous amount of data — every payment, dispute, refund and ad campaign tells us something about the business. Most of it isn't yet answering directly the questions we are actually asking. You will build the datasets, models, and metrics that turn that raw signal into fast, trustworthy answers — and then push those answers in front of the people making the calls, so that a good decision is the path of least resistance.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a reporting seat. You'll write production code and ship changes directly to Whop's financial products. You'll build and own the data pipelines that ingest payment-processor settlement data into that ledger, encode accounting logic in code (bad-debt recognition, FX gain/loss, revenue categorization), and make the reported numbers reconcile to source.

If you combine engineering rigor with genuine curiosity about the business and a knack for turning numbers into "here's what we should do," this role is unusually high-leverage.

## What You'll Do

- Turn data into decisions. Find the insights that change what Whop does — surface trends, risks, and opportunities in payments, growth, and unit economics, and get them in front of the right people in a form they can act on immediately.
- Ship Whop financial product. Write production code and build features on Whop Financial Reports so it's reliable enough to close the books on and useful to every merchant.
- Build and own the ingestion pipelines. Ingest and backfill payment-processor settlement data into the ledger, at scale and across currencies and geographies, so reported financials are complete and accurate always.
- Own the financial semantic layer. Define and standardize metric logic (GMV/GTV, revenue, take rate, contribution margin, COGS/GP per business, LTV/CAC, retention/cohorts, chargeback and dispute rates) so one metric means one thing across the organization.
- Make finance and the business self-serve. Partner with leadership to ship intuitive, trustworthy Metabase dashboards and data models so every stakeholder can answer their own questions with confidence — and stop pinging you for a number.
- Set standards. Establish data modeling conventions, testing, documentation, and access controls, and own data quality and lineage across the stack.

## What You'll Bring

- 3+ years in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a closely related role, ideally in a high-growth or fintech environment.
- Deep expertise in SQL and Python, plus a modern transformation and warehouse stack (dbt + BigQuery preferred; Snowflake/Redshift equivalent fine).
- Proven experience defining financial and operating metrics and resolving data inconsistencies across complex, multi-system pipelines.
- Strong grounding in version control (GitHub), CI/CD, testing, and documentation as defaults, not afterthoughts.
- Working knowledge of financial concepts: revenue, margin, LTV/CAC, retention/churn, and the difference between an accounting number and a product metric.
- Bias for action: you ship usable, iterative data models that deliver value now over waiting on the perfect architecture.
- A strong communicator comfortable with ambiguity, building trust across Finance, Product, GTM and Exec partners.

## Compensation & Benefits

Competitive base salary, meaningful equity, and full benefits. Target base range: $200,000-$300,000, depending on level and experience. This role can flex to a Senior level for the right candidate.

## About Whop

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Whop is a financial technology platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and transact digital products and services, aiming to create the world’s largest internet marketplace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; latest deal: Later Stage VC of $200M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Technology / Digital Commerce / Marketplace (classified as Media and Information Services (B2B) and Business/Productivity Software by PitchBook)
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – individuals and businesses selling digital goods (software, subscriptions, bots, digital content)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Provide the world with sustainable income” and “create the world’s largest internet market, where people can create, connect, and transact all from a single platform” [newsroom.whop.com](https://newsroom.whop.com/about/)

## Products & Services
- **Whop Marketplace**: A platform where users can buy, sell, trade, and rent digital software products (e.g., bots, tools, subscriptions) from peers worldwide.
- **Whop Checkout API**: Embeddable components that allow developers to integrate payment processing and plan management directly into their own websites or apps [whop.com](https://whop.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed, but listed in CB Insights’ “Unicorns – Billion Dollar Startups” collection, suggesting a $1B+ valuation [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/whop).
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Conflicting reports – $218M (CB Insights) or $280M (PitchBook). The most recent round was a $200M Later Stage VC in February 2026 [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37). Total raised to date (including earlier rounds) is at least $200M.
- **Notable Investors**: Tether Investments (lead), Iman Gadzhi, Justin Mateen, Josh Richards, Peter Thiel, Bain Capital Ventures, Common Metal, A* (A-Star), and 19+ others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/whop) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - ~$4 billion annualized platform earnings across 145 countries [newsroom.whop.com](https://newsroom.whop.com/about/).
  - 176 employees as of latest data [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37).
  - Acquired Hyper (Financial Software) in a merger/acquisition deal [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: Large, active community of sellers and buyers earning ~$4B annually, creating a strong marketplace flywheel.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines storefront, payments, and delivery for digital products – reducing friction for creators.
- **Developer-first approach**: APIs and embeddable checkout components allow easy integration into external sites, expanding reach beyond whop.com.
- **Backing from prominent investors** – Peter Thiel, Tether, Bain Capital Ventures – lending credibility and capital.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding the marketplace** – enabling more digital product categories and geographies (already in 145 countries).
- **Building payment and monetization infrastructure** for the creator economy and software entrepreneurs.
- **Acquiring complementary assets** (e.g., Hyper) to broaden product capabilities.
- **Scaling headcount and engineering** to support rapid platform growth (careers page active on Greenhouse).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-growing fintech startup with a mission-driven focus on “the future of work” and sustainable income for users.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Based in Brooklyn, NY (300 Kent Avenue) with an office presence; remote roles may be available depending on team (check current openings on [Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/whop)).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on APIs, embeddable components, and building scalable infrastructure for a global marketplace.
- **Growth opportunity**: Joining a company that is rapidly expanding (176 employees and growing) with unicorn status and significant funding runway.

## Sources
1. [whop.com – Careers](https://whop.com/careers/)
2. [newsroom.whop.com – About](https://newsroom.whop.com/about/)
3. [whop.com – Homepage](https://whop.com/)
4. [cbinsights.com – Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/whop)
5. [pitchbook.com – Company Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/470898-37)

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