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Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization

OpenAI· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$266k - $445kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Staff+ full-stack engineer role focused on purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across OpenAI products, owning architecture, implementation, and product outcomes with hands-on leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build purchasing experiences end to end, from frontend interactions through the product APIs and backend integrations that support them.
  • Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights.
  • Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities that support new products, pricing models, offers, and distribution channels.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science to identify opportunities, define experiments, and evaluate results.
  • Lead initiatives from early exploration and prototyping through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.
  • Shape frontend and product API architecture, balancing immediate delivery with maintainability and reuse across products.
  • Work across engineering teams and business functions to turn complex requirements into simple, effective customer experiences.
  • Provide technical leadership through hands-on development, design reviews, and mentorship.

Qualifications

  • Have demonstrated technical ownership at Staff level or beyond, shaping architecture and delivering substantial initiatives across teams.
  • Have strong experience building sophisticated web applications and the backend APIs that power them.
  • Have repeatedly taken customer-facing products from ambiguous ideas through production and ongoing iteration.
  • Understand how frontend performance, latency, interaction design, and API architecture affect customer experience and business outcomes.
  • Combine strong product instincts with experience using experimentation and A/B testing to decide what to build and measure its impact.
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping quickly and investing in reliable, reusable systems.
  • Communicate clearly across functions and can move work forward without a fully defined roadmap.
  • Enjoy hands-on engineering while helping other engineers develop their judgment and take on broader ownership.

Skills

Required:REST and GraphQL APIsFrontend web developmentBackend systems designA/B testing and experimentation

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • PTO: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices, and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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