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Software Engineer, Developer Products

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🕒 April 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $285k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

Where this job comes from

Posted on OpenRouter's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship April 24

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OpenRouter

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

OpenRouter is a platform providing a unified interface for interacting with various large language models (LLMs). It focuses on delivering better prices and uptime without the need for subscriptions. The platform supports multiple AI tasks and showcases models like Mistral Small 3 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B, which are designed for fast performance and high accuracy. OpenRouter also features gaming and coding tools that enhance usability across different sectors such as marketing, finance, and education.

📋 Description

• Own and evolve the public REST API, including API design, ergonomics, versioning, errors, and rate-limiting behavior • Build and maintain client SDKs in TypeScript and Python • Lead launches of upcoming SDKs • Ship and expand the Agent SDK for multi-step, agentic workloads on OpenRouter • Treat documentation, examples, and starter repositories as products • Instrument developer and AI coding-agent entry points and improve them • Make developer-facing surfaces agent-friendly • Collaborate with DevRel, Product, and Platform teams to identify ecosystem gaps and deliver solutions end to end • Shape OpenRouter’s product as the platform scales and expand its features

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building external-facing developer products — APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms widely used by engineers • Strong API and SDK design instincts; experience shipping libraries that developers integrate with • Strong TypeScript skills • AI-forward workflow and interest in agentic systems • High agency and bias toward action • Comfortable owning a product line at a small company with fluid team boundaries • Strong written communication; docs, changelogs, and SDK reference material are part of the job • Pragmatic tradeoff judgment between speed and simplicity • Nice to have: prior experience at developer-centric companies • Nice to have: hands-on experience designing or maintaining agent SDKs or other agentic developer tooling • Nice to have: existing OpenRouter use, open-source contributions, or AI tooling side projects • Must address United States immigration sponsorship questions in the application

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers equity • Remote work arrangement

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