Stainless

Product Engineer, San Francisco office

Stainless

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

ReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs with customers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.\n
  • We have raised over $35 million from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more.\n
  • We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and expect to grow from ~20 to ~40 people in 2025.\n
  • Role: We’re hiring a product engineer for our Web Apps team to shape the future of our self-serve product.\n
  • You’ll be an early member of our Web Apps team, a small team responsible for our SDK Studio and public API. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of feature development from crafting thoughtful design docs to writing UI and backend code.\n
  • What you'll do: Ship large improvements to Stainless’s SDK Studio with a focus on empowering self-serve users.\n
  • Build LLM-powered tools to simplify our users’ path for going from OpenAPI spec to production-ready SDK.\n
  • Design + build public APIs that underly the Stainless platform.\n
  • Shape the direction of our nascent API Framework.\n
  • Talk with developers at small startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises to understand their needs.\n
  • Write great docs, help build a great website, do what needs done.\n
  • Who you are: Ability to build anything you can imagine, with great design and sound architecture.\n
  • A demonstrable track record of building modern web applications (think: TypeScript, React, etc).\n
  • Excellent product sensibility.\n
  • A true passion for developer experience and empathy for developers from all backgrounds.\n
  • Familiarity with OpenAPI and the broader API tooling ecosystem.\n
  • Experience and/or interest in writing blogs, speaking at conferences and engaging with developer communities.\n
  • Experience both designing and stewarding APIs at scale, whether internal or external.\n
  • Expertise with TypeScript, our language of choice.\n
  • Broad polyglot interest/experience – comfort working across multiple programming languages.\n
  • You’ve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows you’re a builder at heart.\n
  • Benefits: We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.\n
  • Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).\n
  • Paid commuter benefits & similar.\n
  • Paid team lunch/meals during workdays.\n
  • Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer).\n
  • Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year ("remote February").

Requirements

  • Ship large improvements to Stainless’s SDK Studio with a focus on empowering self-serve users.\n
  • Build LLM-powered tools to simplify our users’ path for going from OpenAPI spec to production-ready SDK.\n
  • Design + build public APIs that underly the Stainless platform.\n
  • Shape the direction of our nascent API Framework.\n
  • Talk with developers at small startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises to understand their needs.\n
  • Write great docs, help build a great website, do what needs done.\n
  • Ability to build anything you can imagine, with great design and sound architecture.\n
  • A demonstrable track record of building modern web applications (think: TypeScript, React, etc).\n
  • Excellent product sensibility.\n
  • A true passion for developer experience and empathy for developers from all backgrounds.\n
  • Familiarity with OpenAPI and the broader API tooling ecosystem.\n
  • Experience and/or interest in writing blogs, speaking at conferences and engaging with developer communities.\n
  • Experience both designing and stewarding APIs at scale, whether internal or external.\n
  • Expertise with TypeScript, our language of choice.\n
  • Broad polyglot interest/experience – comfort working across multiple programming languages.\n
  • You’ve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows you’re a builder at heart.