Frontend Engineer, Financial Web Platform
Frontend Engineer · Mid · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
OpenAI's Financial Engineering team is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build the billing platforms powering ChatGPT, GPT-5, and their API products. The role involves creating scalable UI components, AI-powered billing workflows, and internal tooling for finance teams managing subscriptions and enterprise pricing at global scale.
Responsibilities
- UI Component Development: Create scalable, reusable UI components and patterns that support a wide range of billing use cases across OpenAI's product portfolio
- Full-Stack Collaboration: Partner closely with backend engineers to deliver end-to-end billing capabilities spanning subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and enterprise offerings
- Internal Tool Development: Build tools and surfaces that allow Finance, Sales, Support, and Go-To-Market teams to manage and reason about billing data efficiently
- AI-Powered Feature Creation: Create AI-powered features for billing workflows and platform tooling to automate repetitive tasks, surface insights, and improve decision-making
- Frontend Architecture: Help define frontend architecture, standards, and patterns for a shared billing platform used by teams across OpenAI
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Product, Data, Finance, Go-To-Market, and Engineering partners to translate ambiguous requirements into clear, high-quality interfaces
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Frontend Development
Strong frontend engineering experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications with emphasis on usability, scalability, and maintainability
Software Engineering
Solid software engineering experience with understanding of modern development practices and patterns
Production Systems
Significant experience in developing and redeveloping production systems to launch new product capabilities and handle scaling challenges
User Experience Focus
Deep investment in creating exceptional user experiences and crafting products that address customer needs
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred
Equivalent Experience
Equivalent professional experience in lieu of formal education considered
Experience
Web Application Development
3-5 years of experience building complex web applications in production environments
Payments/Billing Experience
Experience in payments, billing, or monetization systems considered a strong bonus
Cross-Team Collaboration
Proven ability to engage with various partners, particularly those outside of engineering
Skills
Required
JavaScript/TypeScript
Expert-level proficiency in modern JavaScript and TypeScript for frontend development
React Ecosystem
Advanced knowledge of React, hooks, state management, and component architecture
HTML/CSS
Strong skills in semantic HTML and modern CSS including responsive design and accessibility
API Integration
Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and third-party service integrations
Version Control
Proficiency with Git workflows, code reviews, and collaborative development practices
Testing
Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks
Preferred
Payment Processing
Nice to haveKnowledge of payment systems, billing workflows, and financial data handling
Cloud Platforms
Nice to haveExperience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure for deployment and infrastructure
UI/UX Design
Nice to haveUnderstanding of design principles, user research, and accessibility standards
Performance Optimization
Nice to haveSkills in web performance optimization, bundle analysis, and loading strategies
AI/ML Integration
Nice to haveInterest in integrating AI capabilities into user interfaces and workflows
Agile Methodologies
Nice to haveExperience with Scrum, Kanban, or other agile development practices
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 230,000 – 385,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Equity Participation
Stock options and equity participation in one of the world's leading AI companies
Health Insurance
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
Professional Development
Learning and development opportunities including conferences, courses, and AI research access
Hybrid Work Model
Flexible hybrid work arrangement with San Francisco office collaboration
Cutting-Edge Technology
Access to state-of-the-art AI tools and technologies for personal and professional use
Mission-Driven Work
Opportunity to contribute to AI safety and ensuring AI benefits all of humanity
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Screening
Phone or video call with recruiter to discuss background, interest, and role alignment
- 02
Technical Assessment
Take-home coding challenge focused on frontend development and component design
- 03
Technical Interview
Live coding session with engineering team covering JavaScript, React, and system design
- 04
System Design Interview
Frontend architecture discussion focusing on billing system components and scalability
- 05
Cross-Functional Interview
Meeting with Product and Finance stakeholders to assess collaboration and communication skills
- 06
Final Interview
Culture fit and leadership interview with senior engineering management
- 07
Reference Check
Professional reference verification and background check completion
Full posting
Original listing.
About the team
The Applied team at OpenAI safely brings cutting-edge technology to the world. We have released widely used products such as ChatGPT, Sora, and the OpenAI API, powering models including GPT-5 and a growing set of multimodal capabilities across text, image, audio, and video. Our team also manages large-scale inference and platform infrastructure that supports these experiences at global scale. With much more on the horizon, our impact continues to grow.
Our customers build fast-growing businesses using our APIs, unlocking product capabilities that were previously unimaginable. ChatGPT and Sora exemplify the breadth of what’s now possible across text, image, audio, and video experiences. As these capabilities expand, we prioritize the responsible use of our technology, emphasizing safe and thoughtful deployment over unchecked growth.
Within Applied Engineering, the Financial Engineering team builds the frontend platforms and workflows that power how OpenAI’s products are priced, purchased, and managed at scale. We work closely with Go-To-Market and Finance partners to translate complex commercial requirements into clear, reusable billing experiences. We’re looking for a frontend engineer to help define and evolve these billing platforms, shaping the primitives, interfaces, and patterns that product teams rely on as our offerings and customer needs continue to grow in complexity.
In this role, you will:
Create scalable, reusable UI components and patterns that support a wide range of billing use cases across products.
Partner closely with backend engineers to deliver end-to-end billing capabilities spanning subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and enterprise offerings.
Build tools and surfaces that allow teams like Finance, Sales, Support, and GTM to manage and reason about billing data efficiently.
Create AI powered features for billing workflows and platform tooling to automate repetitive tasks, surface insights, and improve decision-making.
Help define frontend architecture, standards, and patterns for a shared billing platform used by teams across OpenAI.
Collaborate with Product, Data, Finance, Go-To-Market, and Engineering partners to translate ambiguous requirements into clear, high-quality interfaces.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Software engineering experience, with added experience in payments, billing, or monetization seen as a bonus.
Strong frontend engineering experience building and maintaining production-grade web applications, with an emphasis on usability, scalability, and maintainability.
Enjoy engaging with various partners, particularly those outside of engineering.
Have a keen and innate desire to learn and acquire new skills, coupled with a strong ability to impart that knowledge clearly and succinctly to others.
Bring significant experience in developing (and redeveloping) production systems to launch new product capabilities and to handle scaling challenges.
Are deeply invested in creating an exceptional user experience, taking pride in crafting products that address customer needs.
Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
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