4 months ago

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Engineering Manager, SDKs

$210k - $255k

Stainless

New York, NYRemote

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 expect to grow from ~20 to ~40 people in 2025.

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.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day you will:

  • 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.

Profile

You might be a good fit for this role if:

  • 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.

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).