Staff Full-Stack Engineer — Monetization & Checkout

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 266,000 - 445,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Equity

Relocation support

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Staff+ Full Stack Engineer for Consumer Monetization in San Francisco, with three days in the office. You will architect end-to-end purchasing experiences, shape monetization capabilities, and lead initiatives from ideation through production and rollout.

You will own frontend and backend API architecture, collaborate with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, performant checkout and pricing solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience at Staff level or beyond, shaping architecture and delivering substantial initiatives across teams.
• Strong experience building sophisticated web applications and the backend APIs that power them.
• Experience taking customer-facing products from ideas through production and ongoing iteration.
• Understand how frontend performance, latency, interaction design, and API architecture affect customer experience and business outcomes.
• Experience using experimentation and A/B testing to decide what to build and measure its impact.

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.

Skills

Staff level ownership

Web applications

Backend APIs

Product experimentation

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Staff+ Full Stack Engineer for Consumer Monetization in San Francisco, with three days in the office. You will architect end-to-end purchasing experiences, shape monetization capabilities, and lead initiatives from ideation through production and rollout.

You will own frontend and backend API architecture, collaborate with Product, Design, Growth, and Data Science, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, performant checkout and pricing solutions.