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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 are currently 15-20 people based primarily in NYC (just west of SoHo) and looking to grow to ~70 in NYC over the next 3 years. We were founded in 2022 and are backed by top investors including Sequoia.

Our mission is to bring the best of GraphQL and gRPC to the simplicity and ubiquity of REST.

Our business model is to offer a suite of developer platform products to enable every company to offer the kind of developer experience Stripe does around their API.

Our first product is API client libraries as a service – you send us your OpenAPI spec, we let your customers npm install your-company (or equivalent, in several languages).

Our founder, Alex Rattray, created Stripe's API client library codegen system and led a redesign of the Stripe API docs.

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’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’ll be competitive with early stage companies on cash and provide generous equity grants.
Great healthcare coverage options.
Paid commuter benefits.
Paid team lunch during workdays.
Flexible PTO.

Average salary estimate

$150000 / YEARLY (est.)

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What You Should Know About Engineering Manager, SDKs, Stainless

At Stainless, we're on a mission to simplify and enhance how developers interact with APIs, and we're searching for an Engineering Manager, SDKs to lead the charge in our innovative team. Based in the heart of New York City, you’ll be steering the product development of our cutting-edge SDK generator, which transforms OpenAPI specs into elegant wrapper libraries in multiple languages. As one of the two engineering leaders, you'll manage a talented team of 6-12 engineers, guiding them towards shipping high-quality features while maintaining a relentless standard of excellence. With startups like OpenAI and Cloudflare relying on our technology, your role will have a direct impact on the future of developer experience. You'll collaborate closely with our partners to optimize API support in SDKs while acting as the editor-in-chief of our technical documentation. If you're a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and seeks to nurture and mentor talent, we want to hear from you! Join us on our exciting journey to revolutionize the API landscape and be a part of something great at Stainless.

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What are the key responsibilities of the Engineering Manager, SDKs at Stainless?

The Engineering Manager, SDKs at Stainless is responsible for leading the product development of the SDK generator, overseeing feature releases, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high technical quality. You will also collaborate with industry leaders such as OpenAI and Cloudflare to shape the design of future APIs.