Product Engineer

ABOUT STAINLESS

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 https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/stainless-helps-build-sdks-for-openai-anthropic-and-meta/ 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.

ROLE

We’re hiring a product engineer for our Web Apps team to shape the future of our self-serve product.

You’ll be an early member of our Web Apps team, a small team responsible for our SDK Studio https://app.stainlessapi.com and public API. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of feature development from crafting thoughtful design docs to writing UI and backend code.

This is an in-person role based in New York City or San Francisco.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Ship large improvements to Stainless’s SDK Studio with a focus on empowering self-serve users.

• Build LLM-powered tools to simplify our users’ path for going from OpenAPI spec to production-ready SDK.

• Design + build public APIs that underly the Stainless platform.

• Shape the direction of our nascent API Framework.

• Talk with developers at small startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises to understand their needs.

• Write great docs, help build a great website, do what needs done.

WHO YOU ARE

• Experience level sufficient to build anything you can imagine, with great design and sound architecture.

• A demonstrable track record of building modern web applications in Typescript and React.

• Excellent product sensibility.

• A true passion for developer experience and empathy for developers from all backgrounds.

• Experience generating SDKs with Stainless.

• Familiarity with OpenAPI and the broader API tooling ecosystem.

• Experience and/or interest in writing blogs, speaking at conferences and engaging with developer communities.

• Experience both designing and stewarding APIs at scale, whether internal or external.

• Expertise with TypeScript, our language of choice.

• Broad polyglot interest/experience – comfort working across multiple programming languages.

• You’ve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows you’re a builder at heart.

BENEFITS

• 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").