Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.
We have raised over $35 million from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more.
We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and are a team of ~60 strong expecting to double in the next ~9 to 12 months.
Youâll lead product development for our SDK generator, a âcompilerâ from OpenAPI specs to idiomatic wrapper libraries in various languages for customers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.
Youâll be one of 2 engineering leaders overseeing Stainless Engineering and will manage 6-12 engineers. This role reports to the CEO and is onsite at our office in Manhattan.
Support engineers in shipping new SDK generator features quickly and achieving high level of technical quality.
Hold our bar of âwhat library would an expert in the language create if they had infinite timeâ.
Oversee development of new SDK generators for e.g., C#, PHP, Rust, Swift, Elixir, etc.
Drive our core âcompilerâ design to support many programming languages, library features, and edge cases.
Scale our SDK build platform to manage hundreds of concurrent customer builds.
Partner with OpenAI, Anthropic, et al on the design of future APIs and their optimal support in SDKs.
Act as editor-in-chief of our technical documentation.
Mentor high-slope engineers toward rapid career growth.
Source, interview, and close some of the best engineers youâve ever worked with.
Youâve managed a high-performing engineering team in an early- or growth-stage startup.
Youâre hands-on: deeply technical, understand in detail what your team is working on, and like to give architecture and product guidance.
Youâve personally recruited engineers to join a team you manage.
You have 2+ years of engineering management experience and have managed more than one team.
Youâve worked on libraries, for example building a popular open source project or designing internal abstractions used across a company.
Youâre interested in growing your management skills as the team scales over the next 2 years.
Youâve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows youâre a builder at heart.
We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.
Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).
Paid commuter benefits & similar.
Paid team lunch/meals during workdays.
Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer).
Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year ("remote February").
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