Fern
Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and API documentation.
Frontend Engineer
About the role
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
- Streamline the developer experience for our monorepo. Streamline the developer experience for our monorepo by sharing your vision of an ideal internal developer experience. Your work will focus on reducing build times, accelerating deploy times, and increasing time-to-ship.
- Manage our frontend infrastructure. Lead the implementation of Storybook, enhance our CI/CD pipeline, optimize web application performance, and implement application monitoring to ensure robust and reliable operations.
- Build user-facing features. Develop features such as a WYSIWYG editor to replace Markdown files with an intuitive in-browser app, and a changelog to track developer documentation changes over time. You’ll oversee the architecture, design, deployment, and customer adoption of these features.
- Earn trust with customers. Work with developers from startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprises. Collaborate to understand their needs and define product requirements.
What you’ll bring
- 4+ years of professional frontend development experience, ideally including startup environments
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js
- Experience collaborating with product designers
- A customer-first mindset, with enthusiasm for engaging with users to ensure we build polished, user-centric products
- (Bonus) Experience with OpenAPI, Conjure (Palantir), or Smithy (AWS)
What we offer
- 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
- Enjoy 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)
About the interview
- Phone Screen with a founder
- Technical Interview: Debug
- Technical Interview: Coding
- Work Trial (in office)
- Offer!
About Fern
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.
