Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization

We Love AI Jobs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 445,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Staff+ Full-Stack Engineer to shape purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across consumer products. You will own architecture and product outcomes, working across web experiences, product APIs, and backend services.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep technical depth, strong collaboration with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science, and a track record of launching scalable monetization features. The role is hybrid in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Experience at staff level or beyond with architecture ownership.
• Experience building sophisticated web applications and backend APIs.
• Experience taking customer-facing products from ambiguous ideas through production and iteration.
• Understanding how frontend performance, latency, API architecture affect user experience and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build purchasing experiences end to end, from frontend interactions through product APIs and backend integrations.
• Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability through experiments and analytics.
• Develop shared checkout components and monetization capabilities for new products, pricing models, offers, and channels.
• Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science to identify opportunities, define experiments, and evaluate results.
• Lead initiatives from exploration through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation.

Skills

Web application development

Backend APIs

Frontend architecture

Product APIs

Checkout systems

A/B testing

Product analytics

Payments

Job description

# Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer MonetizationOpenAISan Francisco (Hybrid)Full-time$266,000 – $445,000 / yearUpload your resume once and Scout applies for youApply with ScoutShare this job:LinkedInXSave imageThe Staff+ engineer will build customer-facing purchasing experiences and the backend capabilities for subscriptions, checkout, and other monetization offerings. The role leads technical initiatives from planning through launch while shaping reusable architecture and improving customer and business outcomes.* Full-time* Hybrid* Staff level or beyond### Skills and expertiseWeb application developmentBackend APIsFrontend architectureProduct APIsCheckout systemsA/B testingProduct analyticsPayments### Key responsibilities* Build purchasing experiences across frontend interactions, product APIs, and backend integrations.* Improve checkout conversion, performance, and reliability using experiments and customer insights.* Lead technical initiatives and develop reusable capabilities for pricing, offers, and new products.## How this job comparesCompared with 343 open staff engineering jobs on October 10, 2026.Pay: This job pays $266K to $445K a year. The 219 open staff engineering jobs that publish US pay start at $206K on average, so this job starts about 29% higher.Similar open jobs: We Love AI Jobs lists 343 open staff engineering jobs at 113 companies.Remote work: This job is hybrid. 47 of the 343 staff engineering jobs (14%) are remote.AI in this role: Low. The company works with AI, but AI is a small part of this role's daily work. The role focuses on purchasing, payments, subscriptions, and monetization systems. It does not describe regular work with AI models, AI tooling, or AI products.## Full descriptionAbout the TeamConsumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products. Our scope spans purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, and billing, along with the shared capabilities that support new products, offers, and distribution channels.We own both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that power them. We partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams across OpenAI to make purchasing effective and reliable, and new offerings easier to launch and monetize.About the RoleWe’re looking for experienced Staff+ full-stack engineers to shape purchasing experiences and monetization capabilities across OpenAI products.You’ll work across web experiences, product APIs, and shared components, combining strong product judgment with technical depth. The work ranges from improving checkout conversion and performance to enabling new pricing models, offers, and ways for customers to purchase our products.You’ll help identify opportunities, turn ambiguous goals into concrete technical plans, and lead initiatives from exploration through launch. As patterns emerge across products, you’ll develop reusable capabilities that make future launches faster and more consistent.This is a hands-on technical leadership role with substantial ownership over architecture, implementation, and product outcomes.This role is based in San Francisco, with three days per week in the office.In this role, you will:• 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.You might thrive in this role if you:• 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.Experience in e-commerce, growth, checkout, subscriptions, offers, or monetization is particularly valuable. Direct payments experience is helpful but not required.