<h1>About Stainless</h1>Stainless is a fast-growing tech startup building the future of APIs. Our customers include industry leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.<a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/stainless-helps-build-sdks-for-openai-anthropic-and-meta/">We have raised over $35 million</a> from a16z, Sequoia, and founders/C-levels from Stripe, Datadog, Segment, Linear, and more.We are headquartered in NYC, just west of SoHo, and expect to grow from ~20 to ~40 people in 2025.<h2>Role</h2>You’ll lead product development for our <a target="_blank" href="https://www.stainlessapi.com/blog/announcing-the-stainless-sdk-generator">SDK generator</a>, a “compiler” from OpenAPI specs to idiomatic wrapper libraries in various languages for customers including <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/openai/openai-node">OpenAI</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python">Anthropic</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go">Cloudflare</a>.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.<h2>What youll do</h2><ul><li>Support engineers in shipping new SDK generator features quickly and achieving high level of technical quality.</li><li>Hold our bar of “what library would an expert in the language create if they had infinite time”.</li><li>Oversee development of new SDK generators for e.g., C#, PHP, Rust, Swift, Elixir, etc.</li><li>Drive our core “compiler” design to support many programming languages, library features, and edge cases.</li><li>Scale our SDK build platform to manage hundreds of concurrent customer builds.</li><li>Partner with OpenAI, Anthropic, et al on the design of future APIs and their optimal support in SDKs.</li><li>Act as editor-in-chief of our technical documentation.</li><li>Mentor high-slope engineers toward rapid career growth.</li><li>Source, interview, and close some of the best engineers you’ve ever worked with.</li></ul><h2>Who you are</h2><ul><li>You’ve managed a high-performing engineering team in an early- or growth-stage startup.</li><li>You’re hands-on: deeply technical, understand in detail what your team is working on, and like to give architecture and product guidance.</li><li>You’ve personally recruited engineers to join a team you manage.</li><li>You have 2+ years of engineering management experience and have managed more than one team.</li><li>You’ve worked on libraries, for example building a popular open source project or designing internal abstractions used across a company.</li><li>You’re interested in growing your management skills as the team scales over the next 2 years.</li><li>You’ve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows you’re a builder at heart.</li></ul><h2>Benefits</h2><ul><li>We offer competitive salary and generous equity grants.</li><li>Great healthcare coverage options (e.g., fully covered platinum plans).</li><li>Paid commuter benefits &amp; similar.</li><li>Paid team lunch/meals during workdays.</li><li>Flexible PTO plus 3 weeks of company-wide vacation a year (2 weeks in December, 1 week at the end of the summer).</li><li>Flexible WFH and 1 month fully remote per year (remote February). </li></ul>