Full-Time

Product Engineer

Stainless

Stainless

51-200 employees

Generates idiomatic SDKs from OpenAPI specs

Compensation Overview

$150k - $260k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
LLM
React.js
TypeScript
OpenAPI
Requirements
  • Experience level sufficient to build anything you can imagine, with great design and sound architecture.
  • A demonstrable track record of building modern web applications in Typescript and React.
  • Excellent product sensibility.
  • A true passion for developer experience and empathy for developers from all backgrounds.
  • Experience generating SDKs with Stainless.
  • Familiarity with OpenAPI and the broader API tooling ecosystem.
  • Experience and/or interest in writing blogs, speaking at conferences and engaging with developer communities.
  • Experience both designing and stewarding APIs at scale, whether internal or external.
  • Expertise with TypeScript, our language of choice.
  • Broad polyglot interest/experience – comfort working across multiple programming languages.
  • You’ve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows you’re a builder at heart.
Responsibilities
  • Ship large improvements to Stainless’s SDK Studio with a focus on empowering self-serve users.
  • Build LLM-powered tools to simplify our users’ path for going from OpenAPI spec to production-ready SDK.
  • Design + build public APIs that underly the Stainless platform.
  • Shape the direction of our nascent API Framework.
  • Talk with developers at small startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises to understand their needs.
  • Write great docs, help build a great website, do what needs done.

StainlessAPI develops tools that help software engineers generate language-idiomatic SDKs from REST APIs. It takes an OpenAPI Specification and automatically produces client libraries tailored to specific programming languages, so developers can use APIs without writing or maintaining multiple language clients. The product works by parsing the API definition and emitting SDKs that follow each language's conventions, enabling fast, consistent integration with APIs. StainlessAPI differentiates itself by focusing on automated SDK generation from OpenAPI, reducing manual boilerplate and ensuring consistency across languages, rather than competing primarily on features like hosting or analytics. Its goal is to speed up API development and maintenance for developers and tech teams, typically via a subscription-based model that scales with enterprise needs.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$28.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • $25M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia fuels expansion.
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta drive $1M ARR with hundreds of customers.
  • Ruby and Terraform generators now GA, supporting 8 languages including C#.

What critics are saying

  • Fern's superior docs and Explorer erode Stainless developer adoption within 6 months.
  • Speakeasy's OpenAI SDK customization steals key client OpenAI in 12 months.
  • Open-source stainless-tools commoditizes generation, slashing subscriptions in 3 months.

What makes Stainless unique

  • Stainless generates idiomatic SDKs from OpenAPI specs using AI-powered compiler.
  • stainless.yaml enables precise SDK customization beyond standard OpenAPI.
  • GitHub Actions automate SDK updates and release PRs for production repos.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Company Equity

Commuter Benefits

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

4%

2 year growth

21%
Stainless
May 7th, 2025
Ruby & Terraform GA, MCP updates, plus major upgrades to TS, Go, Java

Stainless is excited to announce that the Ruby SDK and Terraform provider generators are now generally available.

SiliconANGLE Media
Dec 10th, 2024
Stainless Software raises $25M for AI SDKs

Stainless Software Inc. has raised $25M in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia, The General Partnership, and others. The company uses AI to generate SDKs from APIs, supporting languages like Python and Go. Stainless claims hundreds of paying customers, including OpenAI and Meta, and reports $1M in annual recurring revenue. The service offers a free tier and paid plans ranging from $250/month to $30k/year.

Latest Nigerian News
Dec 10th, 2024
Stainless, a startup offering an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Stainless, a startup offering an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z (Kyle wiggers/techcrunch).

Yahoo News Canada
Jun 1st, 2024
Stainless is helping OpenAI, Anthropic and others build SDKs for their APIs

Rattray, who studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been building things for as long as he can remember, from an underground newspaper in high school to a bike-share program in college. Rattray picked up programming on the side while at UPenn, which led to a job at Stripe as an engineer on the developer platform team. At Stripe, Rattray helped to revamp API documentation and launch the system that powers Stripe's API client SDK.

TechCrunch
Apr 24th, 2024
Stainless Is Helping Openai, Anthropic And Others Build Sdks For Their Apis

Besides a focus on generative AI, what do AI startups like OpenAI, Anthropic and Together AI share in common? They use Stainless, a platform created by ex-Stripe staffer Alex Rattray, to generate SDKs for their APIs.Rattray, who studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania, has been building things for as long as he can remember, from an underground newspaper in high school to a bike share program in college. Rattray picked up programming on the side while at UPenn, which led to a job at Stripe as an engineer on the developer platform team.At Stripe, Rattray helped to revamp API documentation and launch the system that powers Stripe’s API client SDK. It’s while working on those projects Rattray observed there wasn’t an easy way for companies, including Stripe, to build SDKs for their APIs at scale.“Handwriting the SDKs couldn’t scale,” he told TechCrunch. “Today, every API designer has to settle a million and one ‘bikeshed’ questions all over again, and painstakingly enforce consistency around these decisions across their API.”Now, you might be wondering, why would a company need an SDK if it offers an API? APIs are simply protocols, enabling software components to communicate with each other and transfer data. SDKs, on the other hand, offer a set of software-crafting tools that plug into APIs. Without an SDK to accompany an API, API users are forced to read API docs and build everything themselves, which isn’t the best experience.Rattray’s solution is Stainless, which takes in an API spec and generates SDKs in a range of programming languages including Python, TypeScript, Kotlin, Go and Java