Backend Architect for AI-Driven Financial Services

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 293,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking backend engineers to build the systems that make advanced AI useful, reliable, and trustworthy in financial services. You'll own data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations behind our products, scaling deployments at some of the world's largest financial institutions.

This product-focused role involves shaping new offerings from ground up, partnering directly with customers to align workflows with real-world needs, and collaborating across OpenAI to turn model

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript; APIs & distributed systems.
• Experience building data‑intensive apps and complex integrations.
• Strong product instincts and ability to turn problems into engineered solutions.
• Comfort working across stack and organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems powering AI-native workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.
• Ingest, index, retrieve, and serve financial data, filings, market info, and knowledge at scale.
• Develop integrations with data providers, enterprise knowledge systems, and customer environments with secure auth.
• Enable models and agents to use the right tools and data with provenance.
• Improve reliability, latency, observability, and production quality.
• Collaborate with financial institutions to understand needs and drive deployments.
• Partner with product, design, research, security, and other teams to scale capabilities.

Skills

Backend development

APIs & distributed systems

Data-intensive apps

Product instincts

Reliability & security

AI interest

Startup experience

Job description

OpenAI is seeking backend engineers to build the systems that make advanced AI useful, reliable, and trustworthy in financial services. You'll own data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations behind our products, scaling deployments at some of the world's largest financial institutions.

This product-focused role involves shaping new offerings from ground up, partnering directly with customers to align workflows with real-world needs, and collaborating across OpenAI to turn model