Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

OpenAI
New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 293,000 - 385,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["TypeScript","React","APIs","SDKs","Documentation","Product development"]

Join OpenAI’s API Experience team to design and build the next generation of developer-focused products. You will work across frontend surfaces, backend systems, SDK/documentation pipelines, and API workflows serving millions of developers. Collaborate with product, design, research, and API teams to make AI capabilities easy to understand, test, and safe to launch, while shaping a NYC-based team’s direction.

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OpenAI
OpenAI
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Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience

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Job Summary

Join OpenAI’s API Experience team to design and build the next generation of developer-focused products. You will work across frontend surfaces, backend systems, SDK/documentation pipelines, and API workflows serving millions of developers. Collaborate with product, design, research, and API teams to make AI capabilities easy to understand, test, and safe to launch, while shaping a NYC-based team’s direction.
Location: New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key 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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 293,000 - 385,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key 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.
Experience:5+ yearsAIDeveloper platformsSaaS
Skills:TypeScriptReactAPIsSDKsDocumentationProduct development
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptReactPythonGoRustAPIsSDKsDocumentation

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALL·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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