Founding Engineer, Speakeasy
Integration experiences for APIs
Job no longer available
Integration experiences for APIs
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
1-20 employees
Company mission
Speakeasy's mission is to stretch the limits of what's possible by putting best in class developer infrastructure in the hands of every developer, starting with APIs.
Role
Who you are
- Enthusiastic about working on technical challenges for developer focused products and not hesitant to dive into the rabbit hole and become operational with a new piece of tech
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment aka shifting sands of startup land
- You love diving deep into the comments section of a design doc :) but also bias towards action and spin out that POC before lunchtime
- Excited to be a builder for builders! Empathy for developers across the stack and an enthusiasm for developer first products
- A great product sense and experience building infrastructure products that other team’s rely on
- Enjoy understanding technical domains deeply and are willing to really get into the weeds. A high sense of technical ownership and desire to please the customer
- Have experience working on internal platform engineering teams, developer tools, developer productivity or infrastructure products at scale
- Have experienced the realities of building and maintaining APIs first hand
- Are a generalist and polyglot engineer with an ability to pick up new frameworks quickly and willing to work across the stack from backend to frontend
- Looking to write foundational lines of code that will become core product for years to come
- Bonus: Experience with code generation, transpilation, synthesis, building or extending core web frameworks like Axios, tPRC, Mux etc
- Bonus: Expertise with OpenAPI, building SDKs or other tooling for REST APIs
- Bonus: Expertise using LLMs for code generation or code completion
- A preference for PST and GMT time zone
What the job involves
- As a founding team member, you will be deeply involved in our technical evolution and architecture
- Understand and support customers in whatever language and technology they use to build and integrate API products – the more languages, the better.Our engineering team is founded on the principle of context over control
- We ship code quickly and continuously to production, and trust each other to exercise autonomy to evolve our product and processes to ever-better match our company goals
- We build our core product with Typescript, Go, React, NextJS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. We support the long-tail of the API ecosystem through code synthesis, thus far generating SDKs for PHP, Java, Ruby, Go, Python and Typescript, along with Terraform Providers from OpenAPI specifications
Our take
With the proliferation of APIs and SaaS in software, operations administration is becoming an increasingly time-consuming task. For Ops teams, a ‘zero ops’ approach that leverages automation to streamline this work is on the rise. Speakeasy wants to carry this same principle over to API development, with a product that allows API developers to ship an API experience from their code with no long-tail administration.
It’s early days still for Speakeasy, but in principle the product has a substantial market available to win. The API ecosystem is growing fast, but development and shipping of APIs is still reported to involve much fringe, repetitive work beyond simply writing the code. We’ve seen this kind of niche filled lucratively before - take, for example, the slew of new no-code platforms - and so far it’s remarkably unaddressed for API development.
With its product used by product and engineering teams at Airbyte, Codat, Writer and more, the company has already made a name for itself. In 2023, it raised Seed funding to the tune of $7.6 million, bringing its total raised to $11 million. With this investment, Speakeasy intends to continue developing its platform as well as grow its go-to-market team.
Steph
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$7.6m
SEED
Jan 2022
$3.3m
SEED
Total funding: $10.9m
Company benefits
- Unlimited vacation (minimum 20 days)
- Private health insurance
- 401k
- Flexible work arrangements
Company HQ
Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Simon Yu
(Co-founder)Worked as an associate at tech-focused private equity firm Francisco Partners, before moving into product roles at VMware, SafeGraph, and Flexport. Along the way, also co-founded spend management software SpendOps, and AWS container management platform CloudReactor.
Sagar Batchu
(Co-founder)Began as a software engineer at PotaVida, then at Enlightened (just before it was sold to Siemens), then worked through various senior engineering roles at LiveRamp to ultimately become director of engineering. Is currently also a mentor with Plato.
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