Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance
AI summary of the role
Backend engineer on OpenAI's small, entrepreneurial Financial Services vertical team, building data systems, agentic workflows, and enterprise integrations that power AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex.
What you’ll do
- Design and build backend systems for AI-native financial workflows across ChatGPT Work and Codex
- Build infrastructure to ingest, index, retrieve, and serve financial data at scale
- Develop integrations with financial data providers and enterprise knowledge systems, including auth and entitlements
- Build systems for tool/data selection, source provenance, and accurate verifiable outputs
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript with strong foundation in APIs, data systems, and distributed systems
- Experience building data-intensive applications, search/retrieval systems, infrastructure platforms, or complex integrations
- Strong product instincts and ability to move from ambiguous customer problem to practical solution
Technologies
Python · Go · Rust · TypeScript · APIs · distributed systems · search · retrieval · data systems · agentic workflows
About OpenAI
Builds frontier AI models (GPT series) and ships them as ChatGPT consumer/enterprise products plus a developer API for the broader AI ecosystem.
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