APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth.

Fern enables businesses to offer “Stripe-level” SDKs (client libraries) and Docs for their REST API. Inspired by internal tooling we saw at AWS and Palantir, we’re building Fern to let every engineering team offer easy-to-use and well-documented APIs.

Founded in 2022, we’re less than 10 people, building open source, and backed by YCombinator. We work together in our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Our customers include Cohere, ElevenLabs, Webflow, and Merge.dev.

This role is in person at our office in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.

As a small team, we’re all generalists, constantly pick up new challenges, and interface with customers regularly. Regarding product and code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We don’t expect you to have a background in all the tools we use, but we expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with Next.js, React, and TypeScript.

What you’ll do

• Streamline the developer experience for our monorepo. Bring your opinions about what a “good” internal DX looks like that helps us reduce build time, accelerate deploy time, and increase our time-to-ship.
• Manage our frontend infrastructure. You’ll lead our implementation of Storybook, improve our CI/CD pipeline, optimize our web application's performance, and implement application monitoring.
• Build user-facing features. Our customers ask us for a WYSIWYG editor to get them out of Markdown files and into an in-browser app. They also ask for a changelog that describes how their developer documentation changes over time. You’ll be responsible for architecting, designing, deploying, and driving adoption amongst our growing customer base.
• Earn trust with customers. Talk with developers from early-stage startups, growth-stage businesses, and large enterprises to understand their needs.
• Build our team. We’re growing, and you will work directly with the CEO, CTO, and other founding members to bring in talented engineers.

What you’ll bring

• 4+ years of professional frontend development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
• Significant experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js
• Previous experience working closely with designers
• Significant experience working with APIs
• A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure we’re building a polished product that meets their needs
• (Bonus) You’re experienced using OpenAPI, Conjure (from Palantir), or Smithy (from AWS)

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work
• Ownership of projects end-to-end while wearing multiple hats
• First-hand experience building an early-stage startup 
• A salary of $168,000 to $192,000 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
• Unlimited vacation

Our tech stack

• NextJS + Vercel (Frontend)
• Fern (API)
• Microservices: Express (NodeJs), FastAPI (Python)
• Postgres DB + Prisma ORM
• AWS (Cloud)

Our tech stack:

• NextJS + Vercel (Frontend)
• Fern (API)
• Microservices: Express (NodeJs), FastAPI (Python)
• Postgres DB + Prisma ORM
• AWS (Cloud)