OpenRouter
Direct Ashby career site

Software Engineer, Developer Products

Location
Remote (US)
Listed
5 days ago

About the Role

We're hiring a Software Engineer on our Developer Products team to build the surfaces external developers use to integrate with OpenRouter - our API, SDKs, docs, CLI, and other tools. Today, this work is owned by a small group, and the developer ecosystem around OpenRouter is growing quickly. Your work will also shape how agents interact with our platform and integrations.

This role is ideal for engineers who love autonomy, value collaboration, and have a track record of shipping software that works. You’ll play a critical role in shaping our product as we scale, helping expand our platform’s features, and delivering exceptional experiences for our users.

What You'll Do

  • Own and evolve our public REST API and the developer experience around it - from API design and ergonomics to versioning, errors, and rate-limiting behavior.
  • Build and maintain our client SDKs across TypeScript and Python, and lead the launches of our upcoming SDKs.
  • Ship our Agent SDK, expanding it into a surface for multi-step, agentic workloads built on OpenRouter.
  • Treat documentation, examples, and starter repos as products - instrument what developers and AI coding agents land on first, and make sure those are strong entry points to OpenRouter.
  • Make every developer-facing surface agent-friendly, given that AI coding agents are users of our APIs and SDKs.
  • Collaborate with our DevRel, Product, and Platform teams to identify gaps in the developer ecosystem and run with them end to end.

About You

  • 5+ years building external-facing developer products - APIs, SDKs, or developer platforms widely used by engineers.
  • Strong API and SDK design instincts; you've shipped libraries that developers integrate with and you have opinions about what makes them good.
  • Strong TypeScript skills; we're a TypeScript shop and TypeScript is widely used across the AI ecosystem.
  • AI-forward in your own workflow and interested in what agentic systems can do.
  • High agency and a bias toward action - you spot something missing in the developer ecosystem and ship it without waiting for a ticket.
  • Comfortable owning a product line at a small company where boundaries between teams are fluid.
  • Strong written communication; docs, changelogs, and SDK reference material are part of the job.
  • Pragmatic about tradeoffs between speed and simplicity.

Nice to Haves

  • Prior experience at developer-centric companies
  • Hands-on experience designing or maintaining agent SDKs or other agentic developer tooling.
  • Existing user of OpenRouter, contributions to open-source projects, or side projects in the AI tooling space.

Additional information

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we’re looking for someone who is excited to join the team.

About OpenRouter

OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers-without lock-in, capacity constraints, or unnecessary cost. We power the most advanced AI teams in the world by giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and stay future-proof as models evolve.

As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, OpenRouter sits at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads.

Read the original posting

From OpenRouter's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 3, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

How Rolev.ai helps with this application

Rolev.ai is a job search and application tool for US job seekers. For this Software Engineer, Developer Products role at OpenRouter, it shows how your resume fits, tailors your resume to the posting, and prepares the application for you to review.

  • See how you fit

    Openings from employer career sites are ranked against your whole resume—and searchable inside Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via Rolev.ai MCP.

  • Tailor without inventing

    Every change to your resume is checked against your original. New experience goes in only with your yes—zero fabricated claims.

  • Draft the full kit

    Tailored and Full Match resumes, role-specific cover letters, and answers to employer screening questions are prepared in seconds.

  • 1-Click Extension Autofill

    The Chrome extension fills the employer's Greenhouse, Workday, Lever, or Ashby form in 1 click. You review it and press Submit.

Start free with 5 tailored applications a monthChrome extensionFor AI assistantsPricingHow Rolev.ai comparesApplication guides

Similar roles

Common questions

Where is the Software Engineer, Developer Products job at OpenRouter located?

Yes, this Software Engineer, Developer Products opening at OpenRouter is listed as Remote (US). Always check OpenRouter's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.

How do I apply for the Software Engineer, Developer Products position at OpenRouter?

This listing links directly to OpenRouter's Ashby application page. You can apply directly on OpenRouter's site, or use Rolev.ai to check your resume fit, generate a zero-hallucination tailored resume and cover letter for this posting, and autofill the Ashby application form in 1 click with the Rolev.ai Chrome extension. You always review the form and press Submit yourself.

Tailor resume & applyCompany site