Software Engineer, Developer Products

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OpenRouterAI infrastructure
Remote (US)Full-TimeSenior
Salary$215K - $285K; $215K – $285K • Offers Equity
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years building external-facing developer products — APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms widely used by engineers.
Required Skills
PythonTypeScriptRESTful APIsDocumentation

Requirements

  • Bring 5+ years building external-facing developer products such as APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms widely used by engineers.
  • Have strong API and SDK design instincts and experience shipping libraries developers integrate with.
  • Demonstrate strong TypeScript skills.
  • Use AI actively in your workflow and be interested in agentic systems.
  • Show initiative in identifying and shipping improvements to the developer ecosystem.
  • Be comfortable owning a product line at a small company with fluid team boundaries.
  • Have strong written communication skills for documentation, changelogs, and SDK reference material.
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and simplicity.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the public REST API, including API design, ergonomics, versioning, errors, and rate-limiting behavior.
  • Build and maintain client SDKs across TypeScript and Python, and lead upcoming SDK launches.
  • Ship and expand the Agent SDK for multi-step, agentic workloads built on OpenRouter.
  • Treat documentation, examples, and starter repositories as products and improve them as entry points to OpenRouter.
  • Make developer-facing surfaces agent-friendly for AI coding agents using the APIs and SDKs.
  • Collaborate with DevRel, Product, and Platform teams to identify developer ecosystem gaps and address them end to end.
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