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").