Software Engineer Monetization
Character.AIVisit Character.AI website
Character.AI is an interactive AI-entertainment platform for creating and conversing with Characters.
Menlo Park, United States
About Character.AI
Character Technologies Inc. (dba Character.ai) operates a consumer platform that uses conversational AI to let users create Characters, chat, roleplay, and tell stories.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and optimize mobile and web features for payments, subscriptions, and in-app purchases. You will design monetization experiences, collaborate on trustworthy purchase flows, define metrics and experiments, and work with backend partners on scalable payment, entitlement, and transaction systems while maintaining privacy, performance, and UI quality.
Requirements
- Experience with monetization, in-app purchase, or subscription flows in consumer products
- Understanding of TypeScript, React, React Native, Tailwind, HTML, and modern frontend best practices
- Ability to contribute to backend services, ideally using Python or Go, for payments or commerce systems
- Experience shipping user-facing features with measurable monetization or engagement outcomes
- Ability to balance iteration speed with quality and reliability in a fast-paced environment
- Communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, design, and data
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize mobile and web features for payments, subscriptions, and in-app purchases
- Design and experiment with monetization surfaces, virtual currency systems, premium upsells, and advertising
- Partner with design and product on purchase experiences
- Collaborate with data science to define success metrics, run experiments, and analyze outcomes
- Work with backend partners on scalable systems for payments, entitlements, and transactions
- Maintain UI and UX quality, performance, and privacy in sensitive user flows
- Shape monetization experimentation and A/B testing frameworks
Benefits
- Health coverage for employees and their families, with most premiums covered
- 401(K) contribution
- Up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave
- Four weeks of PTO
- Daily in-office catering
- Monthly DoorDash stipend
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Equity
