# Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $293k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, React, Python, Go, Rust, REST APIs, SDKs, Documentation Systems, Developer Tools, Product Analytics
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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