Software Engineer, Payments

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement and scale core payment infrastructure.
• Build robust and extensible financial primitives to enable rapid iteration and support hyper-growth.
• Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Finance, GTM, Product, etc) to translate business requirements into clean, scalable technical systems.
• Demonstrate high levels of ownership to get changes shipped in the highly-regulated domain of payments.
• Create a seamless user experience for checkout around the world.
• Improve the reliability, observability and auditability of money movement at OpenAI.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally with a focus on payments or financial systems at scale.
• Familiar with payment processors (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Braintree) or have built similar internal financial systems, e.g. storing cardholder data, pricing, online commerce, etc.
• Strong product mindset and a desire to deeply understand product needs and design for long-term flexibility.
• Thrive in high-growth, ambiguous environments, and can balance fast execution with technical rigor and system reliability.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to build consensus among stakeholders both internally and externally.