Create beautiful docs, SDKs and secure MCP servers from your API. Scalar keeps every interface in sync as your API evolves. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
You'll own the platform that every other Scalar product runs on — the services, infrastructure, and internal tooling behind Docs, SDKs, the API Client, and Agent Scalar. This is one of the most load-bearing roles on the team: when you make the platform faster and more reliable, everyone ships faster.
What they're looking for
- You've owned production infrastructure at a startup or small team and liked the breadth of it
- You're comfortable being the person who understands how things actually work, end to end
- You can go deep on a TypeScript-heavy stack — and you like that our infra is written in TypeScript too
- You've run real services on a cloud provider (we're on GCP) and understand the trade-offs between serverless and long-lived VMs
- You make decisions and communicate them clearly without waiting to be told what to do
- You'd rather collaborate to the right answer than win the argument, and you operate with a high level of kindness
More about this role
Building on a great API is one of the best feelings in software — every interface you want is right there, and it all just works. Building on a bad one is the opposite: out-of-date docs, no SDK in your language, no MCP server. We started Scalar to fix that.
We're a small team (around ten engineers and designers) who wear a lot of hats and obsess over our craft. We think every company deserves Stripe-level docs, SDKs, and MCP servers from day zero — not just the ones with a platform team to build them. Open-source is in our DNA: our whole team contributes to and maintains repositories across the API ecosystem, including the standards everyone relies on, like OpenAPI.
We keep things lean and move without layers of process — engineers pick up problems, talk to each other, and ship. We're looking for owners with high agency: people who see what needs doing and do it. If you do your best work with a lot of autonomy and very little ego, you'll feel at home here.
You'll own the platform that every other Scalar product runs on — the services, infrastructure, and internal tooling behind Docs, SDKs, the API Client, and Agent Scalar. This is one of the most load-bearing roles on the team:...
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