Stainless is building the future of APIs: type-driven, robust, and polished.
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 DX 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).
Founded by the creator of Stripe's API client library codegen system, Stainless is backed by Sequoia and the General Partnership, around 2 years old, under 10 people, and has had real revenue from day 1, including from customers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cloudflare.
Generalist engineers are a special breed – they build the core systems that form the foundation of a company for years, both scrappily getting things done wherever help is needed and thinking deeply on foundational architecture.
Joining as a Generalist Engineer, you’ll have a focus area, but we’ll all be pitching in on every aspect of the company and acting with a high degree of ownership in a collegial, humble atmosphere.
In the next 6 months, you will: