About the role
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 are a team of ~60 strong expecting to double in the next ~9 to 12 months.
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the 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 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 Rust and other languages Drive our core “compiler” design to support many programming languages, library features, and edge cases. Partner with OpenAI, Anthropic, et al on the design of future APIs and their optimal support in SDKs. 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