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Talent Engineer at Whop in Palo Alto, CA
Job Description
Our mission
Whop’s mission is to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Today, we help millions of people do so, a reflection of just how much the world of work is changing.
About the role
The talent team owns one of the most important systems at Whop: finding and hiring exceptional people. As a talent engineer, you will build the sourcing, automation, data, and workflow infrastructure that helps us identify, engage, and close world-class candidates. That includes building candidate pipelines, automating research and outreach, improving recruiting operations, and using data to make hiring faster, sharper, and more reliable. We take talent density seriously.
What you'll do
- Build systems that identify and surface high-signal candidates across engineering, product, design, security, data, and business roles
- Create sourcing automations that turn messy public data into clean, useful candidate pipelines
- Improve recruiter and hiring manager workflows across sourcing, outreach, screening, scheduling, and tracking
- Build internal tools that help us evaluate, prioritize, and engage candidates faster
- Use data to understand where our best candidates come from and how to improve conversion through the funnel
- Experiment with new ways to find exceptional people before they are actively looking
- Partner closely with founders, hiring managers, and recruiters on critical searches
What you need
- Minimum of 3 years experience in a software development, data, automation, or technical recruiting operations role
- Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with imperfect information
- Strong technical judgment and ability to understand what great engineering talent looks like
- Curiosity and drive to continuously improve how hiring works
- Ability to build reliable internal tools and automations with high attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and good judgment when handling candidate information
- Comfort working across data, product, recruiting, and operations
Nice-to-haves
- Startup experience or experience as a technical founder
- Experience building internal tools, sourcing systems, or recruiting automation
- Strong taste for clean workflows and simple operational interfaces
- Experience with data enrichment, scraping, search, LLMs, or candidate matching systems
- Experience recruiting or sourcing technical talent
Benefits
- $250,000K+ and a competitive equity package
- Unlimited PTO, with full health, vision, dental coverage
- Free access to Equinox
- Lunch & dinner paid for Monday thru Friday
- The latest MacBook Pro & tech accessories
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, Whop facilitates over $3 billion in annual payouts to people in 144 countries, with gross transaction volume increasing roughly 25% month over month.
Whop has raised hundreds of millions from institutional investors like Insight, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, and Peter Thiel — including a recent strategic investment from Tether, the largest stablecoin company in the world.
Our current team is a mix of young, passionate entrepreneurs who grew up on the internet and experienced engineers and operators from Robinhood, Meta, Roblox and others.