Software Engineer, Payments
About the Team The Payments Team is working to make AGI financially sustainable by enabling OpenAI to accept payments across our existing products (ChatGPT, ChatGPT for Teams, API) and supporting future commercial experiences. We own the user-facing payments experience, direct integrations with payment service provider
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Software Engineer, Payments at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Payments Team is working to make AGI financially sustainable by enabling OpenAI to accept payments across our existing products (ChatGPT, ChatGPT for Teams, API) and supporting future commercial experiences. We own the user-facing payments experience, direct integrations with payment service provider
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Have 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally with a focus on payments or financial systems at scale.
- Are 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.
- Bring a strong product mindset and a desire to deeply understand product needs and design for long-term flexibility.
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