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 from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more.We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and expect to grow from ~20 to ~40 people in 2025.
Role
You’ll lead product development for our SDK generator, a “compiler” from OpenAPI specs to idiomatic wrapper libraries in various languages for customers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.You’ll 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.
What you'll do
- Support engineers in shipping new SDK generator features quickly and achieving high level of technical quality.
- Hold our bar of “what library would an expert in the language create if they had infinite time”.
- Oversee development of new SDK generators for e.g., C#, PHP, Rust, Swift, Elixir, etc.
- Drive our core “compiler” 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 you’ve ever worked with.
Who you are
- You’ve managed a high-performing engineering team in an early- or growth-stage startup.
- You’re hands-on: deeply technical, understand in detail what your team is working on, and like to give architecture and product guidance.
- You’ve personally recruited engineers to join a team you manage.
- You have 2+ years of engineering management experience and have managed more than one team.
- You’ve worked on libraries, for example building a popular open source project or designing internal abstractions used across a company.
- You’re interested in growing your management skills as the team scales over the next 2 years.
- 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").
Compensation Range: $210K - $255K
