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OpenAIOpenAINew York, NY

Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

Full stack engineer building developer-facing products like the API Playground, docs, SDKs, and onboarding flows. Requires 5+ years experience, strong TypeScript/React skills, and backend proficiency.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale developer-facing products including the OpenAI API Playground, documentation experiences, onboarding flows, examples, and API workflow tools.
  • Own full stack projects end to end, from product definition and UX collaboration through backend implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration.
  • Improve the systems that generate, maintain, and publish SDKs, API references, docs, guides, and developer examples.
  • Partner with API, research, design, and infrastructure teams to bring new model capabilities and API primitives to developers in a clear, usable way.
  • Use developer feedback, product analytics, and direct customer insight to identify friction and improve the API experience.
  • Help set technical and product direction for a new NYC-based team with broad ownership over OpenAI’s developer experience.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional engineering experience, excluding internships, in product-driven engineering teams.
  • Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern web application development.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating production APIs, services, databases, or developer tooling.
  • Strong product judgment and a track record of turning ambiguous developer problems into simple, high-quality product experiences.
  • Comfort working across product, design, engineering, research, and external developer feedback loops.
  • Care for reliability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability in production systems.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment with loosely defined problems and competing priorities.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with documentation systems, SDKs, API design, developer tools, or technical content pipelines.
  • Interest in AI and developer platforms; direct ML experience is helpful but not required.

Skills

TypeScriptReactPythonGoRustREST APIsSDKsDocumentation SystemsDeveloper ToolsProduct Analytics

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