Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Monetization & Checkout

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

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.