Tech Lead, Finance & Supply Chain Engineering

About the Team

The Finance & Supply Chain Engineering organization includes two complementary teams. Software Engineering builds internal full-stack applications durable agentic workflows plugins MCPs and measurable AI-enabled engineering practices. Data Engineering builds trusted analytics data assets for Finance and Supply Chain. The teams have distinct charters with important shared dependencies and broad cross team partnerships across Engineering Applications Finance and Supply Chain.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on senior technical leader who will report alongside the Software Engineering and Data Engineering managers. This is an individual-contributor role with no immediate people-management responsibility. The Tech Lead will raise the technical bar across both teams participate in important cross-team or high-risk design decisions and directly own and ship high-impact work. The role should improve team judgment and autonomy rather than act as a floating architect or universal approval gate.
In this role you will:

• Partner with the Software Engineering and Data Engineering managers as a peer technical leader; managers retain accountability for people staffing priorities performance and delivery commitments.

• Directly own the architecture implementation launch and operation of one or more high-impact initiatives remaining accountable for real outcomes rather than advisory output alone.

• Guide important design decisions that are cross-team difficult to reverse or material to security financial controls reliability data quality or long-term cost of ownership.

• Establish pragmatic engineering standards across architecture APIs and data contracts testing security reliability observability lineage data quality and operational ownership.

• Advance engineering standards for building with AI including agentic workflows evaluation telemetry adoption and outcome measurement.

• Work across backend full-stack data and big-data systems making sound boundary decisions and bringing the right domain experts into the design.

• Partner deeply with Engineering Applications Product Finance Supply Chain Security and other stakeholders to translate ambiguous needs into durable technical systems.

• Raise the technical capability of both teams through design reviews code reviews mentoring written guidance and reusable reference implementations.

• Protect team autonomy: focus involvement on consequential decisions clarify principles and tradeoffs and avoid becoming a required approver for routine or reversible work.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have significant professional engineering experience with sustained staff-level or equivalent impact as an individual contributor; prior people management is not required but a plus.

• Can reason across a full-stack applicationfrom user experience and client architecture through backend services integrations authorization and durable state.

• Have strong data-engineering judgment across analytical modeling batch or streaming pipelines orchestration lineage quality scale and downstream data contracts.

• Have personally designed built shipped and operated consequential systems and can go from architecture to implementation details without relying on positional authority.

• Have led important technical decisions and cross-team initiatives through influence clear reasoning and trusted partnership.

• Care deeply about correctness security data quality auditability operational excellence and measurable outcomes.

• Communicate clearly with engineers managers and non-technical partners; lead with context and principles rather than control.

Nice to Have:

• Experience building internal products developer platforms workflow systems or analytics platforms used across multiple teams.

• Experience with LLM applications durable agents AI evaluations plugins MCPs or measurement of AI-enabled engineering outcomes.

• Experience in Finance Supply Chain accounting procurement ERP or another domain where controls reconciliation and traceability matter.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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