Remote Open Source SDK Engineer

Summary

The job is for a polyglot developer who will work on improving open source libraries in various languages for ReadMe, a company that provides tools for better developer experiences. The role involves owning public modules, working with different teams, engaging with the community, and creating new packages/SDKs.

Requirements

• Comfortable in many languages, and excited to learn new ones
• Passionate about the developer experience of APIs, and making APIs available to as many people as possible
• Flexible! You’re able to work with different languages week by week
• Experienced with package managers and publishing packages (npm, pip, gem, etc)
• Knowledgeable about OpenAPI and JSON schemas
• Experienced with developer tools and using APIs
• Passionate about making products people love

Responsibilities

• Own all our public modules in various languages
• Work with Sales/Support/Product to understand what languages our customers most need, and translate core features to new languages
• Make sure the implementations in various languages are all up to date and have comparable implementations of features
• Engage with our community to merge pull requests and answer public issues
• Work closely with the rest of the Product and Engineering teams to make sure our public tools feel closely integrated with the rest of the product
• Create new packages/sdks/etc as we need ‘em!

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