Software Engineer, Full Stack, Revenue Platform

Full Stack Engineer · Senior · Full Time

San FranciscoUSD 230k – 385k8mo ago
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Role

What you'll do.

OpenAI's Revenue Platform team is seeking a full-stack engineer to build critical financial infrastructure and user experiences that power billing, payments, and revenue recognition across the company. The role involves designing scalable platform components, developing internal tools for finance teams, and collaborating cross-functionally to translate complex business requirements into durable platform primitives that support OpenAI's commercial growth.

Responsibilities

  • Platform Development: Build and evolve shared full-stack platform components including APIs, data models, services, and UI primitives that power billing, subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and enterprise entitlements
  • Revenue Architecture: Design scalable, reusable revenue workflows and abstractions that other product teams can compose to launch new offerings without reinventing core billing logic
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, frontend, and backend engineers to deliver end-to-end revenue capabilities, ensuring platform components are intuitive to adopt and safe to extend
  • Internal Tool Development: Develop internal platforms and tools used by Finance, Accounting, Sales, Support, and Go-To-Market teams to manage, audit, and reason about revenue data efficiently
  • AI Integration: Build automation and AI-powered capabilities within the Revenue Platform to reduce manual work, surface insights, and improve operational decision-making
  • Technical Leadership: Help define the architecture, standards, and contracts for a shared revenue platform, balancing flexibility for product teams with correctness, reliability, and compliance
  • Requirements Translation: Collaborate cross-functionally to translate ambiguous commercial, financial, and operational requirements into durable platform primitives that scale with OpenAI's products and customer base

Qualifications

What we look for.

Technical

  • Full-stack Development

    5+ years of experience building full-stack web applications with strong fundamentals across frontend, backend, and API design

  • Frontend Technologies

    Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks, specifically React and TypeScript for building user interfaces

  • Backend Systems

    Experience designing and working with scalable backend systems, data models, and event-driven or workflow architectures

  • API Design

    Strong experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and understanding of API versioning and documentation

  • Data Integrity

    Experience working in environments where correctness, traceability, and data integrity matter, particularly in billing, payments, or finance domains

Education

  • Computer Science Degree

    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred

  • Equivalent Experience

    Equivalent professional experience in software development may be considered in lieu of formal education

Experience

  • End-to-end Ownership

    Demonstrated ability to own features end-to-end across UI, APIs, data, and operations

  • Cross-functional Collaboration

    Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Fast-paced Environment

    Comfort operating in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and priorities

  • Financial Systems

    Preferred experience in billing, payments, finance, enterprise SaaS, or similar domains requiring high reliability

Skills

Required

  • React

    Proficiency in React framework for building modern, responsive user interfaces

  • TypeScript

    Strong knowledge of TypeScript for type-safe frontend development

  • Python

    Experience with Python for backend development and API services

  • API Design

    Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and web services

  • Full-stack Architecture

    Understanding of full-stack application architecture and design patterns

  • Database Design

    Experience with relational databases and data modeling for complex applications

  • System Scalability

    Knowledge of building scalable systems that handle high traffic and data volumes

Preferred

  • Go

    Nice to have

    Experience with Go programming language for high-performance backend services

  • Node.js

    Nice to have

    Familiarity with Node.js runtime for JavaScript backend development

  • Financial Systems

    Nice to have

    Experience working with billing, payments, or financial technology platforms

  • Event-driven Architecture

    Nice to have

    Understanding of event-driven systems and workflow architectures

  • Cloud Platforms

    Nice to have

    Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure for cloud-native application deployment

  • Microservices

    Nice to have

    Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems design

  • AI Integration

    Nice to have

    Interest in integrating AI capabilities into business applications

Tech stack

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptGoNode.js

Frameworks

ReactExpress.jsFastAPI

Databases

PostgreSQLRedisMongoDB

Tools

DockerKubernetesGitStripeAWS

Other

Event-driven ArchitectureMicroservicesREST APIsGraphQL

Compensation

Pay and benefits.

Base·USD 230,000 – 385,000

Equity·Stock options

Benefits

  • Equity Compensation

    Stock options and equity participation in one of the world's leading AI companies

  • Health Insurance

    Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees and dependents

  • Flexible Work Arrangements

    Hybrid work model allowing for both remote work and in-office collaboration in San Francisco

  • Professional Development

    Access to cutting-edge AI research, conferences, and continuous learning opportunities

  • Retirement Benefits

    401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions

  • Parental Leave

    Generous parental leave policies for new parents

  • Wellness Programs

    Mental health support, wellness stipends, and employee assistance programs

Process

Interview steps.

  1. 01

    Initial Screening

    Phone or video call with recruiting team to discuss background, experience, and interest in OpenAI's mission

  2. 02

    Technical Phone Screen

    45-60 minute technical interview focusing on coding skills, problem-solving, and system design fundamentals

  3. 03

    Take-home Assignment

    Full-stack coding challenge involving building a small application that demonstrates frontend and backend skills

  4. 04

    Virtual Technical Panel

    2-3 hour virtual interview panel including system design, coding, and behavioral questions with engineering team members

  5. 05

    Final Round Onsite

    Full day onsite interviews in San Francisco covering advanced system design, cultural fit, cross-functional collaboration, and leadership discussions

  6. 06

    Reference and Background Check

    Final verification of work history, technical skills, and cultural alignment before offer extension

Full posting

Original listing.

About the Team

Revenue Platform sits at the intersection of customer experience, financial precision, and enterprise-grade reliability. We build both end-user experiences and the underlying platform capabilities that power invoicing, billing, payments, and revenue recognition across OpenAI. Our work spans high-leverage customer surfaces and deep, reusable platform primitives used by multiple teams. These are foundational systems that will support OpenAI’s growth for years to come, and we’re looking for engineers who care deeply about craftsmanship, correctness, and building platforms and experiences that scale gracefully and are a joy to build on.

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Achieving that mission requires more than great models, it demands a world-class commercial platform that enterprises can trust. The Revenue Platform team enables organizations to confidently adopt, scale, and manage their usage of OpenAI products by providing reliable, extensible financial infrastructure and shared services that power the broader ecosystem.

We’re looking for a full-stack engineer to take end-to-end ownership of critical revenue workflows and the platform abstractions behind them. You’ll work across APIs, data models, shared services, and user interfaces to solve hard problems in scale, correctness, and usability. Partnering closely with Product, Finance, Sales, Operations, and other engineering teams, you’ll turn complex business requirements into durable platform capabilities, raising the bar on engineering quality and developer experience as our products and enterprise footprint grow.


About the Role

As a Full Stack Engineer on the Revenue Platform team, you will design, build, and operate platform services and user-facing interfaces that form the backbone of OpenAI’s commercial engine. You’ll collaborate with product, design, finance, and engineering partners to deliver intuitive customer experiences while also creating shared foundations that other teams can safely and efficiently build on. Your work will directly shape the reliability, scalability, and trustworthiness of OpenAI’s most critical financial workflows.


In this role, you will:

  • Build and evolve shared full-stack platform components including APIs, data models, services, and UI primitives that power billing, subscriptions, usage-based pricing, and enterprise entitlements across OpenAI.

  • Design scalable, reusable revenue workflows and abstractions that other product teams can compose to launch new offerings without reinventing core billing logic.

  • Partner closely with product, frontend, and backend engineers to deliver end-to-end revenue capabilities, ensuring platform components are intuitive to adopt and safe to extend.

  • Develop internal platforms and tools used by Finance, Accounting, Sales, Support, and Go-To-Market teams to manage, audit, and reason about revenue data efficiently.

  • Build automation and AI-powered capabilities within the Revenue Platform to reduce manual work, surface insights, and improve operational decision-making.

  • Help define the architecture, standards, and contracts for a shared revenue platform, balancing flexibility for product teams with correctness, reliability, and compliance.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally to translate ambiguous commercial, financial, and operational requirements into durable platform primitives that scale with OpenAI’s products and customer base.

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • 5+ years of experience building full-stack web applications with strong fundamentals across frontend, backend, and API design.

  • Proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, TypeScript) and backend technologies (Python preferred; Node, Go, or similar also welcome).

  • Experience designing or working with scalable backend systems, data models, and event-driven or workflow architectures.

  • Strong product instincts and passion for building intuitive, high-reliability user experiences.

  • Experience working in environments where correctness, traceability, and data integrity matter—e.g., billing, payments, finance, enterprise SaaS, or similar domains (preferred, not required).

  • Comfort owning features end-to-end across UI, APIs, data, and operations.

  • Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Are comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and priorities.

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.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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