Backend Engineer, SDKs

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Company: Fern

Location: New York, NY 10025

Description:

Role Overview

This role is ideal for ambitious engineers with entrepreneurial goals. Many of us are former or future founders, and this is an opportunity to scale a company from $1M to $10M ARR while partnering with fast-growing tech companies shaping the future of software. We value in-person collaboration and work out of our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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What you'll do
  • Drive feature parity between languages. For each SDK language our generator supports, we need to support 15+ features like auto-pagination and server-sent events. We're constantly raising the bar to make our SDKs the best in the industry. By collaborating closely with our users-often through GitHub Issues-we're crafting tools developers rely on to build the future.
  • Expand SDK language selection. Our customers are asking us to support a broader range of SDK programming languages, such as Swift, Rust, and Terraform providers. Once you get a grasp of our open source compiler, you could author the next generator.
  • Be a polyglot. Contribute code across repositories in different programming languages. You may write code in TypeScript, Python, and Go within the same week.
  • Build our team. We're growing, and you will work directly with the CEO and CTO to bring in talented engineers.


What you'll bring
  • 4+ years of professional backend or full-stack development
  • Significant experience working with TypeScript and one other programming language
  • An eye for crafting a great developer experience
  • (Bonus) You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company
  • (Bonus) Experience working with the OpenAPI specification, Conjure (Palantir), or Smithy (AWS)


What we offer
  • Engineering challenges that will push you to become a better developer
  • Kind teammates who work hard
  • First-hand experience building an early-stage startup
  • A salary of $170,000 to $210,000 and equity
  • Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office
  • Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the office
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance


Our tech stack
  • Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)
  • Fern (API)
  • Anthropic + Bedrock (LLM)
  • Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)
  • Postgres + Prisma ORM (Database)
  • Algolia + turbopuffer (Search)
  • AWS (Cloud)


About the interview
  • Phone Screen with a founder
  • Technical Interview: Coding
  • Technical Interview: Decomp (System Design)
  • Work Trial (in office)
  • Offer!
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