# Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $293K - $325K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

$293K – $325K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

## About the Team

OpenAI for Financial Services is part of OpenAI's Verticals organization, which focuses on accelerating the economy and knowledge work. We build AI products for financial institutions and the professionals who power them, from investment bankers and research analysts to investors and other financial services teams.

## About the Role

We're looking for backend engineers to build the systems that make advanced AI useful, reliable, and trustworthy in financial services. You'll build the data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations behind our products. You'll also help bring them into production at some of the world's largest financial institutions.

## In this role, you will:

- Design and build backend systems that power AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.

- Build infrastructure to ingest, index, retrieve, and serve financial data, company filings, market information, and firm-specific knowledge at scale.

- Develop integrations with financial data providers, enterprise knowledge systems, and customer environments, including the authentication, authorization, and entitlements required to use them securely.

- Build the systems that let models and agents use the right tools and data, preserve source provenance, and produce accurate, verifiable outputs.

- Improve the reliability, latency, observability, and quality of production systems, and develop evaluations that measure how well they perform on real financial workflows.

- Work directly with financial institutions to understand customer needs, unblock deployments, and turn feedback into meaningful product improvements.

- Partner with product, design, research, security, and other engineering teams to take new capabilities from early prototype to scaled production.

## You might thrive in this role if you have:

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and operating production backend systems.

- Proficiency in one or more backend languages, such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, and a strong foundation in APIs, data systems, and distributed systems.

- Experience building data-intensive applications, search or retrieval systems, infrastructure platforms, or complex integrations.

- Strong product instincts and the ability to move from an ambiguous customer problem to a practical, well-engineered solution.

- Comfort working across the stack and organizational boundaries when that is what it takes to ship a great product.

- A high bar for reliability, security, privacy, and performance, particularly in enterprise or other high-trust environments.

- Interest in AI and how model capabilities can be applied to complex professional work; direct AI/ML or financial services experience is helpful but not required.

- Experience as a founder, an early engineer at a startup, or an engineer who has helped build a new product from scratch is a plus.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- TypeScript
- APIs
- data systems
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- AI
- ML
- financial services

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