- Company Name
- OpenAI
- Job Title
- Software Engineer, Payments
- Job Description
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**Job title:** Software Engineer, Payments
**Role Summary:**
Architect, build, and scale core payment infrastructure for large‑scale, regulated financial systems. Deliver robust, globally‑ready checkout experiences, collaborate across engineering, finance, legal, and product teams, and own end‑to‑end reliability, observability, and auditability of monetary flows.
**Expectations:**
- 5+ years professional software engineering, with focus on payments or enterprise financial systems.
- Proven experience with payment processors (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree) or equivalent internal cardholder data, pricing, and commerce pipelines.
- Strong product mindset, ability to translate business needs into scalable, flexible designs.
- Comfortable in fast‑growth, ambiguous environments while maintaining technical rigor.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and consensus‑building skills.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Design, implement, and extend payment primitives and core payment infrastructure.
- Collaborate with Finance, Growth, Product, Legal, and external vendors to transform requirements into clean, scalable systems.
- Own system reliability, observability, auditability, and compliance for regulated payment operations.
- Build seamless, worldwide user checkout experiences.
- Drive continuous improvement of system performance and security across all payment flows.
**Required Skills:**
- Backend development in modern languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, TypeScript).
- Deep understanding of payment processor APIs, PCI‑DSS, data security, and compliance.
- System architecture expertise: distributed design, data modeling, reliability engineering.
- Experience with observability tech: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerts.
- Strong communication, documentation, and cross‑functional collaboration.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., PCI‑DSS, Certified Payment Specialist) are a plus.
San francisco, United states
On site
Mid level
13-03-2026