# Software Engineer, Payments

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $255k – $440k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, Payments, Payment Processing, Financial Systems, Observability, Scalable Systems, Checkout, Pricing
**Posted:** 2025-06-20

> Software Engineer building and scaling payments infrastructure for OpenAI's products, including integrations with payment processors and financial primitives. Requires 5+ years experience, preferably in payments/financial systems, strong product mindset, and ability to thrive in high-growth environments.

## Job Description

## 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.

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