OAS Engineer

Locations:
San Francisco (Hybrid), New York (Hybrid), Columbus (Hybrid), or Remote (US)

We're hiring an OpenAPI (OAS) Engineer to own and evolve the systems that power our API Explorer and API Designer - two of the most critical surfaces in the Read Me product. This role sits at the intersection of developer experience, API design, and product engineering. You'll shape how thousands of companies design, validate, and interact with their APIs. You won't just be implementing specs...you'll

help define how APIs should feel.

We're a small team of humans (and one owl) working together to do big things - and that's where you come in. In this role you'll have a transformational impact on Read Me across both the trajectory of the business and our thriving culture.

What we do

Read Me helps more than 5,000 leading startups and tech companies build beautiful, personalized, and interactive developer hubs. If you've ever visited the developer docs for Pager Duty, Samsara, or Nvidia, you've used Read Me!

We love what we do because it's so much more than just documentation. We're providing tools for teams to build a better developer experience and make their products and APIs easier to use. We've got great support from our investors at Accel who led our Series A, and our interview process reflects the open, caring, and whimsical culture we want to maintain as we scale.


• What you'll do here

This isn't a feature team where a PM hands you tickets. You'll help decide what gets built, why it matters, and how it works end-to-end. But you won't be doing it alone. Read Me is a highly collaborative environment where people show up for each other. Ownership here means you're driving, but not driving solo.

You'll specifically own:

• The API Explorer and API Designer: the tools thousands of companies rely on to design, test, and interact with their APIs through Read Me.
• The OAS pipeline: how we parse, validate, transform, and render OpenAPI specs across the product.
• The technical vision: where these surfaces go next as the API landscape evolves (new spec versions, AI-assisted workflows, shifting developer expectations).
• The developer experience: you'll think deeply about what it feels like to use these tools, not just whether they work.

Day-to-day that means you'll:

• Ship meaningful improvements early, changes that customers notice, even before the full vision takes shape.
• Define a technical roadmap for the OAS-powered surfaces that the team can get behind and build toward together.
• Make the big architectural calls. Decide what to evolve, what to reimagine, and how to get there.
• Stay ahead of the curve. The API tooling landscape is shifting fast. You'll keep an eye on where things are heading and make sure Read Me stays out in front.

You'll love this job if you...

• Care deeply about developer experience and API usability.
• Have strong opinions on what makes a "good" API - and can back them up.
• Enjoy working on tools that other developers use every day.
• Like turning complex systems into simple, elegant interfaces.
• Are excited about how AI can improve how developers understand and use APIs.

☆ This role is a great fit if you have...

• Deep familiarity with OpenAPI / Swagger.
• Strong JavaScript/Type Script experience.
• Experience building or working with API explorers or API clients.
• Understanding of:
  • Authentication flows (OAuth, API keys, SSO)
  • REST API design patterns
  • JSON Schema and validation systems
• Comfort debugging real API requests (headers, payloads, errors).
• Familiarity with frontend systems (React, rendering structured data).
• Experience designing developer-facing tools is a big plus.

How you'll grow within one month...

• Learn how Read Me ingests and renders OpenAPI specs.
• Ship your first improvements to the API Explorer or Designer.
• Pair with engineers across the product and platform teams.

Within a few months, you'll...

• Own meaningful parts of the API Explorer or Designer experience.
• Identify gaps in how we handle OpenAPI and propose solutions.
• Become a go-to resource for API-related decisions across the company.

Within your first year, you'll...

• Define the direction of API tooling at Read Me.
• Have shipped major improvements used by thousands of developers…