Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the systems that power our API Explorer and API Designer
- Shape how thousands of companies design, validate, and interact with their APIs
- Define how APIs should feel
- 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 ReadMe stays out in front
Requirements
- Deep familiarity with OpenAPI / Swagger
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript 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)
Nice to Have
- Experience designing developer-facing tools
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO with a three-week minimum
- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and 100% for your dependents
- A One Medical membership
- A gym or fitness stipend of up to $150 per month
- One-to-one donation matching of up to $1,000 per year
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child
- Work from home
- Three offsite retreats per year to get together with coworkers and plan for the quarter ahead
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: small. Structure: highly collaborative environment
