Head of Engineering
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Job Description
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
As Head of Engineering at Stainless, you'll lead our engineering organization during a period of significant growth and iteration. Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a key member of the executive team, you'll shape not just the engineering organization but the company's overall direction.
What you'll do
Lead our technical vision and execution, ensuring we ship great software that delights developers. You'll oversee our core SDK generation product, new product development, and overall infrastructure while setting and maintaining an exceptionally high quality bar.
Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization. You'll develop the engineering management team, establish effective processes, and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
Partner with the CEO and executive team to shape company direction. You'll engage directly with key customers to understand their needs and help shape our product strategy.
Develop deep expertise in the API space and our product vision.
Significantly improve our engineering velocity and product reliability.
Partner with our most sophisticated customers to ensure our products scale with their needs.
Mentor high-slope engineers and managers toward rapid career growth.
Source, interview, and close some of the best engineers and managers you’ve ever worked with.
Who you are
Someone who combines technical excellence with strong leadership abilities and strategic thinking.
Excited about building both great products and great teams, with a passion for developer tools and APIs.
Experience leading, managing, and building high-caliber engineering teams
Strong technical background with ability to credibly supervise full-stack development
Strong product intuition and a track record of shipping exceptional products
You’ve started something before: a business, a club, a nonprofit, a student org; anything that shows you’re a builder at heart.
Direct experience building developer tools or APIs products, a history of successful collaboration with external customers, and past success exemplifying “build the engine while driving the car” style leadership at high growth startups are all a huge plus
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").
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