Software Engineer, Monetization

Character.ai

• $120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in consumer products with focus on monetization, in-app purchases, or subscription models.
  • Strong expertise in Typescript, React, React Native, and Tailwind, along with modern front-end development practices.
  • Familiarity with backend services, preferably in Python or Golang, particularly related to payments and commerce.
  • Experience delivering user-facing features that demonstrate clear monetization or engagement impacts.
  • Ability to maintain a high standard in fast-paced projects, balancing speed and quality.
  • Exceptional skills in communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance user-facing payment and subscription features across mobile and web.
  • Design and test various monetization methods, including virtual currencies and subscription upsells.
  • Collaborate with design and product teams to develop enjoyable and efficient purchase experiences.
  • Work with data science teams to establish monetization success metrics and assess experiment outcomes.
  • Design robust and scalable backend systems for handling payments and transactions.
  • Ensure UI/UX quality, performance, and privacy during sensitive user transactions.
  • Shape the company's monetization testing strategy, developing frameworks for A/B testing and quick iteration.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI and monetization innovation.
  • Collaborative and fast-paced work environment.
  • Focus on designing engaging user experiences and enhancing user delight.
  • Involvement in defining the company's monetization strategies and experimentation approaches.
  • Chance to impact billions of users and contribute to the growth of a leading technology platform.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are scaling personalized AI to billions of users and monetization is at the core of making this vision sustainable. Our monetization team is reimagining how users interact with virtual currency, subscriptions, and premium features in ways that feel intuitive, rewarding, and fun. We're looking for a product engineer who thrives at the intersection of core product, commerce, and user experience-someone excited to design and build systems that not only drive revenue but also enhance user delight.

If you have experience with subscriptions, ads, virtual economies, or in-app purchase flows, and care deeply about building high-quality user experiences we'd love to work with you.

What you'll do
  • Build and optimize user-facing features across mobile and web that power payments, subscriptions, and in-app purchase flows.
  • Design and experiment with monetization surfaces, from virtual currency systems to premium upsells to advertising.
  • Partner closely with design and product to create delightful, performant, and trustworthy purchase experiences.
  • Collaborate with data science to define monetization success metrics, run experiments, and analyze outcomes.
  • Work with backends to design scalable, reliable systems for payments, entitlements, and transactions.
  • Maintain a high bar for UI/UX polish, performance, and privacy in sensitive user flows.
  • Help shape the company's approach to monetization experimentation, including frameworks for A/B testing and iteration velocity.
Who you are
  • Experience in consumer products with monetization, IAP, or subscription flows.
  • Deep understanding of Typescript, React, React Native, Tailwind, HTML, and modern front-end best practices.
  • Comfortable contributing to backend services, ideally with Python or Golang, especially for payments or commerce systems.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping user-facing features that drove measurable monetization or engagement outcomes.
  • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing iteration speed with quality and reliability.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, design, and data.
Nice to Have
  • Background in gaming, virtual currencies, or digital goods ecosystems.
  • Prior experience with payment processors, subscription platforms, or marketplace ecosystems.
  • Passion for user psychology, reward systems, and designing engaging monetization loops.
  • Exposure to startup or zero-to-one product development environments.


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