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 40 strong expecting to double in the next ~6 to 9 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 been 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