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.
Sound like you? Get in touch.
What you’ll do
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Have direct relationships with customers. Whether they’re a CTO, VP of Eng, or Software Engineer, you’ll be the face of Fern and the first person they turn to when they need help. You’ll quickly build a network within the SaaS startup community, especially among YC founders.
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Move fast. To support our customers, you’ll work across several codebases to release bug fixes and features. For example, one day you may fix a bug related to our TypeScript SDK generator and another day you may add features to the Docs Frontend.
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Drive our product roadmap. When you hear a request from a customer that feels hard to build, they may be questioning an assumption we made 6 months ago or proposing a feature requiring a large engineering effort from us. You can use this customer context to build something people want.™
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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
- 3+ years of professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent as a solutions engineer, forward deployed engineer, or founder
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to think on your feet and solve problems during calls with technical customers
- Significant experience with TypeScript and at least one other programming language
- Willingness to be a polyglot and work across multiple programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Python, Rust)
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(Bonus) Experience working with the OpenAPI specification, Conjure (Palantir), or Smithy (AWS)
What we offer
- An opportunity to build a network with high-growth software companies
- 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
- Unlimited vacation
Our tech stack
- Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)
- Claude + Bedrock (LLM)
- Fern (API)
- Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)
- Algolia + turbopuffer (Search)
- Postgres DB + Prisma ORM (Database)
- AWS (Cloud)
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