Engineering Manager, SDKs
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.
About 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’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").