Engineering Manager, Apps

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

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.

You’ll lead product development for the Stainless SDK Studio. You’ll also own creating a new product and line of business around API Docs, partnering with several former Stripe team members who built docs tools there.

Together these web products will be the gateway to Stainless for everyone from startups to established customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.

You’ll be one of 2 engineering leaders overseeing Stainless Engineering and will manage 4-12 engineers. This role reports to the CEO and is either onsite at our office in Manhattan or our nascent San Francisco office.

• Think from first principles about creating an outstanding web experience for creating and publishing SDKs.
• Lead the team in designing and building an API Docs product that sets a new standard in the industry.
• Personally review every pixel that’s shipped to our customers.
• Partner with our most sophisticated customers to ensure our Studio scales with their needs.
• Iterate on our technical architecture to support faster product development and growing scale.
• Mentor high‑slope engineers toward rapid career growth.
• Source, interview, and close some of the best engineers you’ve ever worked with.

• You’re a once or future startup founder who enjoys creating new products.
• You welcome the challenge and commitment required to create a thriving new line of business.
• You’ve managed a high‑performing product 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’re interested in growing your management skills as the team scales over the next 2 years.

• 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").

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development