Staff Backend Engineer, Financial Engineering
OpenAI — ChatGPT, GPT & frontier AI research
About the role
About the Team Financial Engineering (FinEng) builds the financial systems behind ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI’s API platform. These products serve people, developers, and businesses around the world. We make them easy to buy, use, and pay…
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- First seen by JobLarper — Nov 4, 2026, 10 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
- What Backend Engineer roles ask for — across 323 indexed openings: Backend (100%), REST/APIs (68%), Cloud (58%), SQL (48%), Go (46%). This posting names Backend, REST/APIs.
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