Mobile / Full Stack Staff+ Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization

Details

Consumer Monetization builds the experiences and systems that power how customers purchase and pay for OpenAI products, including purchasing flows, payments, subscriptions, billing, and shared capabilities for new products, offers, and distribution channels. The team owns both customer-facing experiences and the underlying platforms that support them, partnering with Product, Design, Growth, Data Science, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build purchasing and subscription experiences across native mobile, mobile web, and supporting product APIs.
• Contribute across iOS or Android, frontend web, and backend development. Approximately 50% of the initial work will be native mobile development, with the remainder across web and product APIs.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Growth to identify customer needs, prioritize improvements, and shape technical direction.
• Improve conversion, performance, and reliability through experimentation, product analytics, and customer insights.
• Develop reusable purchasing components and capabilities that help teams launch and monetize new products.
• Lead initiatives from exploration and technical design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.
• Set engineering standards and provide technical leadership through hands-on development, design reviews, and mentorship.
• Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional partners to deliver reliable purchasing experiences and support product launches.

Requirements

• Demonstrated technical ownership at Staff level or beyond, including shaping architecture and delivering substantial initiatives across teams.
• Deep expertise in iOS or Android and a track record of shipping and operating production mobile applications. Experience in both is not required.
• Professional experience contributing to frontend web or backend development and working across platforms.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, product intuition, and attention to performance, reliability, and customer experience details.
• Experience using data and experimentation to identify opportunities and evaluate impact.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problems, align partners, and make thoughtful tradeoffs between immediate product needs and reusable capabilities.
• Experience in e-commerce, growth, checkout, subscriptions, or mobile monetization is particularly valuable, as is experience with app-store billing integrations and mobile release processes.
• This role is based in San Francisco and requires three days per week in the office.

Benefits

• Base salary of $266,000–$445,000 per year, plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax FSA, dependent care FSA, and commuter accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.